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Most polluted cities in Queensland, Australia, December 2024

18 cities in Queensland, Australia ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Moranbah at 6.3 µg/m³, #1,923 of 2,573 cities in the world. Cleanest: Gold Coast at 3.5. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

About 0 people in these 4 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of December 2024.

Ranked by people: each city's population times its share of unhealthy days, those with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+). That is how many people living there breathed unhealthy air on an average day. Only cities measured at 2 or more places at least 3 km apart are ranked: one monitor shouldn't speak for a whole city. Population is the city itself, not its wider metro area.

← Moranbah 0 0.750
Every city in Queensland, Australia ranked for December 2024 with monitors in two or more places, one column each, ranked by people breathing unhealthy air: height is people on an average day, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.
  1. 1Moranbah
    0
  2. 2Mango Hill
    0
  3. 3Brisbane
    0
  4. 4Gladstone
    0
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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

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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Queensland, Australia, PM2.5, December 2024, smogrank.com/au/region/queensland/history/2024-12 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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