SmogRank / Adelaide / Tuggeranong

Adelaide vs Tuggeranong: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Tuggeranong's air was about 2.5× as polluted as Adelaide's: PM2.5 averaged 8.4 µg/m³ against 3.4, on the 197 days both cities were measured. Tuggeranong had the dirtier air on 168 of those days, Adelaide on 29. Tuggeranong was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 22 of them, Adelaide on 1.

Right now

Adelaide#426on the 24-hour board of 738, at 24 US AQI (4.4 µg/m³)
Tuggeranong–not on the 24-hour board right now

The last year, day by day

Adelaide
Tuggeranong
Each city's daily mean from 9 Oct 2025 to 8 Oct 2026, one stripe a day, coloured by band. A blank stripe is a day without a daily mean.

Month by month

Nov2025DecJan2026FebAdelaide, Mar 2026: 2.6 µg/m³Tuggeranong, Mar 2026: 3.6 µg/m³MarAdelaide, Apr 2026: 2.2 µg/m³Tuggeranong, Apr 2026: 9.6 µg/m³AprAdelaide, May 2026: 3.8 µg/m³Tuggeranong, May 2026: 6.7 µg/m³MayAdelaide, Jun 2026: 4.0 µg/m³Tuggeranong, Jun 2026: 9.7 µg/m³JunAdelaide, Jul 2026: 4.7 µg/m³Tuggeranong, Jul 2026: 9.8 µg/m³JulAdelaide, Aug 2026: 3.1 µg/m³Tuggeranong, Aug 2026: 10.2 µg/m³AugAdelaide, Sep 2026: 2.6 µg/m³Tuggeranong, Sep 2026: 6.6 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Adelaide. Faded: Tuggeranong. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline, 15 µg/m³.

Year by year

YearAdelaideTuggeranongDays both measuredDays Adelaide was worse
2026 so far194719729
202518436110
202323255519

Means in US AQI over the days both cities were measured that year; a year shows once they share 30 such days.

Each city's worst days

Adelaide

Tuggeranong

Daily means in US AQI, with µg/m³ beside them, since the index stops at its top value, over the days both cities were measured in the last year. Each date opens that day's world board.

Compare either city with another

Adelaide

Side by side with Grange (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

Tuggeranong

Side by side with Canberra (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

Use this page

SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Adelaide and Tuggeranong, 9 Oct 2025 – 8 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/au-adelaide/au-tuggeranong (accessed 8 Oct 2026).

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The same rules as every SmogRank figure: reference monitors first, and a day counts with 18 measured hours. How we measure.

Updated 2026-10-08 20:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).