SmogRank / Jeongeup / Seonghwan

Jeongeup vs Seonghwan: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Seonghwan's air was 23% more polluted than Jeongeup's: PM2.5 averaged 23.4 µg/m³ against 19.1, on the 340 days both cities were measured. Seonghwan had the dirtier air on 237 of those days, Jeongeup on 102. Seonghwan was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 227 of them, Jeongeup on 203.

Right now

Jeongeup#235on the 24-hour board of 2,706, at 68 US AQI (18.2 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

Jeongeup
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

Jeongeup, Nov 2025: 21.7 µg/m³Seonghwan, Nov 2025: 29.4 µg/m³Nov2025Jeongeup, Dec 2025: 19.4 µg/m³Seonghwan, Dec 2025: 26.2 µg/m³DecJeongeup, Jan 2026: 20.7 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jan 2026: 24.8 µg/m³Jan2026Jeongeup, Feb 2026: 24.1 µg/m³Seonghwan, Feb 2026: 32.0 µg/m³FebJeongeup, Mar 2026: 28.6 µg/m³Seonghwan, Mar 2026: 39.2 µg/m³MarJeongeup, Apr 2026: 20.8 µg/m³Seonghwan, Apr 2026: 26.2 µg/m³AprJeongeup, May 2026: 16.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, May 2026: 20.6 µg/m³MayJeongeup, Jun 2026: 16.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jun 2026: 19.8 µg/m³JunJeongeup, Jul 2026: 13.9 µg/m³Seonghwan, Jul 2026: 13.4 µg/m³JulJeongeup, Aug 2026: 16.3 µg/m³Seonghwan, Aug 2026: 15.2 µg/m³AugJeongeup, Sep 2026: 15.6 µg/m³Seonghwan, Sep 2026: 16.1 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Jeongeup. Faded: Seonghwan. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline, 15 µg/m³.

Year by year

YearJeongeupSeonghwanDays both measuredDays Jeongeup was worse
2026 so far707726283
2025667634970
2024627127971

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

Jeongeup

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

Jeongeup

Side by side with Buan (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, Jeongeup and Seonghwan, 10 Oct 2025 – 9 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/kr-jeongeup/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).