SmogRank / Donghae City / Seonghwan
Donghae City vs Seonghwan: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Seonghwan's air was about 1.5× as polluted as Donghae City's: PM2.5 averaged 23.2 µg/m³ against 15.2, on the 354 days both cities were measured. Seonghwan had the dirtier air on 289 of those days, Donghae City on 64. Seonghwan was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 233 of them, Donghae City on 131.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Donghae City | Seonghwan | Days Donghae City was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 63 | 77 | 53 |
| 2025 | 62 | 76 | 85 |
| 2024 | 60 | 71 | 72 |
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
Donghae City
- 25 Mar 202615460.0 µg/m³
- 14 Feb 202614754.1 µg/m³
- 24 Mar 202614051.2 µg/m³
Seonghwan
- 14 Feb 202616676.7 µg/m³
- 13 Feb 202616473.4 µg/m³
- 16 Jan 202616169.8 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
Donghae City
Side by side with Santyoku (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, Donghae City and Seonghwan, 10 Oct 2025 – 9 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/kr-donghae-city/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).