SmogRank / Itaguaí / Rio Claro
Itaguaí vs Rio Claro: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Rio Claro's air was 46% more polluted than Itaguaí's: PM2.5 averaged 16.5 µg/m³ against 11.3, on the 150 days both cities were measured. Rio Claro had the dirtier air on 124 of those days, Itaguaí on 25. Rio Claro was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 74 of them, Itaguaí on 27.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Each city's worst days
Itaguaí
- 11 Jul 202610537.3 µg/m³
- 11 Jun 20269633.5 µg/m³
- 8 Jun 20268828.8 µg/m³
Rio Claro
- 13 Aug 202611440.6 µg/m³
- 14 Aug 202610838.5 µg/m³
- 25 Apr 202610035.3 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
Itaguaí
Side by side with Nilópolis (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Rio Claro
Side by side with Limeira (the nearest), Nilópolis (Brazil's 2nd worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Use this page
SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Itaguaí and Rio Claro, 12 Oct 2025 – 11 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/br-itaguai/br-rio-claro (accessed 12 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 2026-10-12 17:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.