SmogRank / Australia / New South Wales / Orange
Orange, month by month
Orange, New South Wales has a measured daily mean on 1,161 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was June 2024, at 58 US AQI (12.6 µg/m³), 308th of 2,563 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was February 2026, at 23 US AQI (4.2 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 37 US AQI (6.7 µg/m³), against 45 US AQI (8.1 µg/m³) in 2024.
Every month since 2023
The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales
Months without a mean, and why
7 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 19 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 8 with no readings from the monitor, 4 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Oct 2025 | 21 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 4 with no readings from the monitor, 6 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Mar 2025 | 13 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 13 with no readings from the monitor, 5 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| May 2024 | 19 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 12 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Feb 2024 | 17 of 29 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 7 with no readings from the monitor, 4 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours), 1 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Jan 2024 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Mar 2023 | 8 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 11 with no readings from the monitor, 12 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Orange's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | 5812.6 µg/m³ | 308thof 2,563 |
| June 2025 | 5712.4 µg/m³ | 739thof 2,508 |
| August 2023 | 5511.5 µg/m³ | 393rdof 1,980 |
| August 2024 | 5511.4 µg/m³ | 400thof 2,010 |
| June 2023 | 5511.1 µg/m³ | 639thof 1,603 |
| July 2023 | 5410.5 µg/m³ | 600thof 1,432 |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Orange's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 27 Jun 2024 | 10336.2 µg/m³ |
| 28 Jun 2024 | 9130.8 µg/m³ |
| 28 Jul 2026 | 8527.5 µg/m³ |
| 19 Jun 2024 | 8527.2 µg/m³ |
| 9 Aug 2024 | 8326.5 µg/m³ |
| 23 Jul 2024 | 8326.4 µg/m³ |
| 30 Jul 2023 | 8225.8 µg/m³ |
| 5 Jul 2025 | 8225.5 µg/m³ |
| 22 Jun 2025 | 8125.1 µg/m³ |
| 16 Jun 2023 | 8125.0 µg/m³ |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Orange, New South Wales, Australia, 1 Jan 2023 – 12 Oct 2026. Monitor data from NSW DCCEEW, read from the publisher; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/au/orange/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Orange now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 17:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).