SmogRank / World / Japan / Osaka / January 2026
Most polluted cities in Osaka, Japan, January 2026
1 city in Osaka, Japan ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. The only one: Toyonaka at 7.1 µg/m³, #1,770 of 2,593 cities in the world. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
Osaka has 16 cities ranked over the last 30 days, but only 1 here: most of its monitors have no readings for January 2026 in OpenAQ's archive, where ours come from, or too few to rank. Cities missing from this board weren't clean, just not measured.
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.
- 1Toyonaka 0%
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 Osaka, Japan, PM2.5, January 2026, smogrank.com/jp/region/osaka/history/2026-01 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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