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Most polluted cities in Iwate, Japan, March 2024

8 cities in Iwate, Japan ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Miyako at 8.8 µg/m³, #603 of 1,643 cities in the world. Cleanest: Kamaishi at 5.6. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

OpenAQ's archive, where our readings come from, has almost none from Japan for March 21, 2024: cities in Japan are averaged over their other days. Why.

Ranked by unhealthy days: the share of each city's measured days with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse on the US EPA's scale. Ties go to the higher average.

← Miyako 0% 0.75%0
Every city in Iwate, Japan ranked for March 2024, one column each, ranked by unhealthy days: height is the share of its measured days that were unhealthy, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.
  1. 1Miyako
    0%
  2. 2Morioka
    0%
  3. 3Hanamaki
    0%
  4. 4Ichinoseki
    0%
  5. 4Kuji
    0%
  6. 6Ōshū
    0%
  7. 7Takizawa
    0%
  8. 8Kamaishi
    0%
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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

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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Iwate, Japan, PM2.5, March 2024, smogrank.com/jp/region/iwate/history/2024-03 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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