SmogRank / Brisbane / Canberra
Brisbane vs Canberra: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Canberra's air was 7% more polluted than Brisbane's: PM2.5 averaged 5.8 µg/m³ against 5.4, on the 270 days both cities were measured. Canberra had the dirtier air on 133 of those days, Brisbane on 132. Canberra was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 4 of them, Brisbane on 0.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Brisbane | Canberra | Days Brisbane was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 28 | 34 | 76 |
| 2025 | 31 | 33 | 176 |
| 2024 | 35 | 37 | 151 |
| 2023 | 39 | 31 | 156 |
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
Brisbane
- 24 Oct 20256014.0 µg/m³
- 28 Oct 20256013.7 µg/m³
- 17 Apr 20265913.3 µg/m³
Canberra
- 10 Jun 20267019.5 µg/m³
- 20 Apr 20267019.4 µg/m³
- 8 Jun 20266415.9 µg/m³
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
Brisbane
Side by side with Logan City (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Canberra
Side by side with Tuggeranong (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Brisbane and Canberra, 10 Oct 2025 – 9 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/au-brisbane/au-canberra (accessed 9 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 2026-10-09 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).