SmogRank / Jeju City / Seonghwan

Jeju City vs Seonghwan: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Seonghwan's air was about 1.8× as polluted as Jeju City's: PM2.5 averaged 23.6 µg/m³ against 12.9, on the 340 days both cities were measured. Seonghwan had the dirtier air on 296 of those days, Jeju City on 40. Seonghwan was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 227 of them, Jeju City on 86.

Right now

Jeju City#918on the 24-hour board of 2,706, at 48 US AQI (8.7 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

Jeju City
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

Jeju City, Nov 2025: 14.0 µg/m³Seonghwan, Nov 2025: 30.5 µg/m³Nov2025Jeju City, Dec 2025: 13.3 µg/m³Seonghwan, Dec 2025: 26.0 µg/m³DecJeju City, Jan 2026: 17.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jan 2026: 24.8 µg/m³Jan2026Jeju City, Feb 2026: 16.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, Feb 2026: 32.0 µg/m³FebJeju City, Mar 2026: 19.0 µg/m³Seonghwan, Mar 2026: 39.2 µg/m³MarJeju City, Apr 2026: 14.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, Apr 2026: 26.2 µg/m³AprJeju City, May 2026: 11.4 µg/m³Seonghwan, May 2026: 20.3 µg/m³MayJeju City, Jun 2026: 10.6 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jun 2026: 19.9 µg/m³JunJeju City, Jul 2026: 9.2 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jul 2026: 13.3 µg/m³JulJeju City, Aug 2026: 7.0 µg/m³Seonghwan, Aug 2026: 15.3 µg/m³AugJeju City, Sep 2026: 9.0 µg/m³Seonghwan, Sep 2026: 15.9 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Jeju City. Faded: Seonghwan. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline, 15 µg/m³.

Year by year

YearJeju CitySeonghwanDays both measuredDays Jeju City was worse
2026 so far587726026
2025607635179
2024587127960

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

Jeju City

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

Jeju City

Side by side with Ponggae-dong (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, Jeju City and Seonghwan, 10 Oct 2025 – 9 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/kr-jeju-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).