SmogRank / Cheorwon / Seonghwan

Cheorwon vs Seonghwan: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Seonghwan's air was 23% more polluted than Cheorwon's: PM2.5 averaged 23.2 µg/m³ against 18.9, on the 351 days both cities were measured. Seonghwan had the dirtier air on 250 of those days, Cheorwon on 100. Seonghwan was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 232 of them, Cheorwon on 200.

Right now

Cheorwon#392on the 24-hour board of 2,706, at 59 US AQI (13.5 µg/m³)
Seonghwan#40on the 24-hour board of 2,706, at 110 US AQI (39.1 µg/m³)

The last year, day by day

Cheorwon
Seonghwan
Each city's daily mean from 10 Oct 2025 to 9 Oct 2026, one stripe a day, coloured by band. A blank stripe is a day without a daily mean.

Month by month

Cheorwon, Nov 2025: 24.1 µg/m³Seonghwan, Nov 2025: 30.1 µg/m³Nov2025Cheorwon, Dec 2025: 22.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, Dec 2025: 26.0 µg/m³DecCheorwon, Jan 2026: 21.0 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jan 2026: 24.8 µg/m³Jan2026Cheorwon, Feb 2026: 29.3 µg/m³Seonghwan, Feb 2026: 32.0 µg/m³FebCheorwon, Mar 2026: 28.1 µg/m³Seonghwan, Mar 2026: 39.2 µg/m³MarCheorwon, Apr 2026: 18.0 µg/m³Seonghwan, Apr 2026: 26.2 µg/m³AprCheorwon, May 2026: 16.2 µg/m³Seonghwan, May 2026: 20.1 µg/m³MayCheorwon, Jun 2026: 15.8 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jun 2026: 19.5 µg/m³JunCheorwon, Jul 2026: 13.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jul 2026: 13.5 µg/m³JulCheorwon, Aug 2026: 12.0 µg/m³Seonghwan, Aug 2026: 15.4 µg/m³AugCheorwon, Sep 2026: 14.1 µg/m³Seonghwan, Sep 2026: 16.4 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Cheorwon. Faded: Seonghwan. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline, 15 µg/m³.

Year by year

YearCheorwonSeonghwanDays both measuredDays Cheorwon was worse
2026 so far697727274
20256976350113
2024607127953

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

Cheorwon

Seonghwan

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

Cheorwon

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

Seonghwan

Side by side with Pyeongtaek (the nearest), Kimje (South Korea's 2nd worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

Use this page

SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Cheorwon and Seonghwan, 10 Oct 2025 – 9 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/kr-cheorwon/kr-seonghwan (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 15:07 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).