SmogRank / Piracicaba / Rio Claro
Piracicaba vs Rio Claro: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Rio Claro's air was 49% more polluted than Piracicaba's: PM2.5 averaged 15.3 µg/m³ against 10.3, on the 282 days both cities were measured. Rio Claro had the dirtier air on 267 of those days, Piracicaba on 12. Rio Claro was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 118 of them, Piracicaba on 32.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Piracicaba | Rio Claro | Days Piracicaba was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 54 | 64 | 9 |
| 2025 | 56 | 65 | 20 |
| 2024 | 62 | 73 | 17 |
| 2023 | 57 | 66 | 14 |
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
Piracicaba
- 14 Aug 20268527.5 µg/m³
- 30 Aug 20268226.0 µg/m³
- 20 Aug 20268024.5 µg/m³
Rio Claro
- 13 Aug 202611440.6 µg/m³
- 14 Aug 202610838.5 µg/m³
- 19 Aug 202610135.6 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
Piracicaba
Side by side with Limeira (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, Piracicaba and Rio Claro, 12 Oct 2025 – 11 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/br-piracicaba/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 22:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.