SmogRank / Japan / Shizuoka / Hamakita
Hamakita, month by month
Hamakita has a measured daily mean on 1,125 days since 28 July 2023. Its worst month was August 2025, at 58 US AQI (13.0 µg/m³), 579th of 2,901 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was January 2024, at 22 US AQI (3.9 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 44 US AQI (7.9 µg/m³), against 36 US AQI (6.4 µg/m³) in 2024.
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
2 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 5 of 12 days measured; a month needs 9. The others: 5 with no readings from the monitor, 2 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Jul 2023 | 4 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Hamakita's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | 5813.0 µg/m³ | 579thof 2,901 | Japan, 4 to 5 August 2025 |
| July 2026 | 5511.3 µg/m³ | 1,051stof 2,784 | Japan and South Korea, July 2026 |
| July 2025 | 5310.3 µg/m³ | 1,201stof 2,889 | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| March 2025 | 529.6 µg/m³ | 1,665thof 2,862 | Japan and South Korea, March 2025 Japan, March 2025 |
| April 2024 | 519.3 µg/m³ | 1,107thof 2,520 | – |
| June 2025 | 519.3 µg/m³ | 1,512thof 2,508 | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
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.
Hamakita's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2025 | 13248.1 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, March 2025 |
| 5 Jul 2025 | 10838.2 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 7 Jul 2025 | 9532.8 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 8 Jul 2025 | 9030.2 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | 8527.6 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, July 2026 |
| 4 Aug 2025 | 8527.5 µg/m³ | Japan, 4 to 5 August 2025 |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 8527.2 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 27 Mar 2025 | 8326.4 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, March 2025 Japan, March 2025 |
| 22 Jul 2026 | 7823.4 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, July 2026 |
| 23 Jul 2026 | 7722.8 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, July 2026 |
Daily means, the highest since 28 Jul 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, Hamakita, Japan, 28 Jul 2023 – 12 Oct 2026. Monitor data from Ministry of the Environment Air Pollutant Wide Area Monitoring System via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/jp/hamakita/history (accessed 13 Oct 2026).
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Hamakita now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-13 01:07 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).