SmogRank / Spain / Murcia / Cartagena
Cartagena, month by month
Cartagena, Murcia has a measured daily mean on 810 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was June 2025, at 63 US AQI (15.4 µg/m³), 411th of 2,508 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was November 2025, at 43 US AQI (7.8 µg/m³).
Every month since 2023
The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales
Months without a mean, and why
19 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 4 of 12 days measured; a month needs 9. The others: 4 with no readings from the monitors, 4 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Jul 2026 | 17 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 14 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2026 | 10 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 20 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| May 2026 | 2 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 29 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2026 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2026 | 8 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 20 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Oct 2024 | 9 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 22 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Sep 2024 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Aug 2024 | 7 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 24 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jul 2024 | 14 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 17 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2024 | 15 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 16 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Sep 2023 | 1 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 29 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Aug 2023 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jul 2023 | No day measured. The others: 1 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2023 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| May 2023 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2023 | No day measured. The others: 3 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 27 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2023 | No day measured. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 11 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Cartagena's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 6315.4 µg/m³ | 411thof 2,508 | North-eastern Spain, June 2025 |
| November 2024 | 6215.1 µg/m³ | 404thof 2,624 | – |
| December 2023 | 6014.0 µg/m³ | 314thof 2,247 | Spain, France and 2 more countries, December 2023 to January 2024 |
| January 2023 | 5913.5 µg/m³ | 292ndof 1,261 | – |
| August 2025 | 5913.3 µg/m³ | 523rdof 2,901 | – |
| February 2025 | 5511.5 µg/m³ | 1,052ndof 2,633 | – |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Cartagena's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Nov 2025 | 15763.5 µg/m³ | North-eastern Spain and Andorra, November 2025 |
| 20 Mar 2025 | 11842.4 µg/m³ | Murcia and Valencia, Spain, March 2025 |
| 25 Nov 2024 | 11440.6 µg/m³ | – |
| 30 Dec 2023 | 10436.7 µg/m³ | Spain, France and 2 more countries, December 2023 to January 2024 |
| 31 Oct 2024 | 9934.7 µg/m³ | Northern Spain, October 2024 |
| 28 Dec 2023 | 9633.0 µg/m³ | Spain, France and 2 more countries, December 2023 to January 2024 |
| 29 Dec 2023 | 9331.9 µg/m³ | Spain, France and 2 more countries, December 2023 to January 2024 |
| 27 Jan 2024 | 9231.1 µg/m³ | Europe, 27 January to 2 February 2024 |
| 21 Mar 2025 | 8929.6 µg/m³ | – |
| 14 Jun 2025 | 8829.2 µg/m³ | North-eastern Spain, June 2025 |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, 1 Jan 2023 – 6 Oct 2026. Monitor data from EEA, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/es/cartagena/history (accessed 13 Oct 2026).
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Cartagena now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-13 03:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).