SmogRank / Japan / Saitama / Sōka
Sōka, month by month
Sōka has a measured daily mean on 1,128 days since 28 July 2023. Its worst month was November 2023, at 58 US AQI (12.6 µg/m³), 251st of 2,243 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was September 2026, at 33 US AQI (5.9 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 53 US AQI (10.3 µg/m³), against 52 US AQI (9.4 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
4 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 19 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 12 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Aug 2025 | 20 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 11 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Sep 2024 | 19 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 11 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| 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.
Sōka's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | 5812.6 µg/m³ | 251stof 2,243 | Japan, November 2023 |
| April 2024 | 5712.3 µg/m³ | 677thof 2,520 | Japan and South Korea, April 2024 |
| December 2025 | 5712.3 µg/m³ | 930thof 3,006 | Japan, December 2025 |
| July 2024 | 5611.7 µg/m³ | 454thof 2,566 | – |
| March 2025 | 5611.7 µg/m³ | 1,286thof 2,862 | Japan and South Korea, March 2025 |
| November 2025 | 5611.7 µg/m³ | 793rdof 2,715 | – |
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.
Sōka's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Jul 2025 | 11440.9 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 21 Dec 2025 | 10938.7 µg/m³ | Japan, December 2025 |
| 8 Jul 2025 | 10537.2 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 10035.4 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 3 Nov 2023 | 9331.5 µg/m³ | Japan, November 2023 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | 8728.6 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, March 2025 |
| 18 Apr 2024 | 8728.5 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, April 2024 |
| 4 Nov 2023 | 8426.7 µg/m³ | Japan, November 2023 |
| 25 Mar 2025 | 8426.7 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, March 2025 |
| 6 Jul 2025 | 8326.4 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
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, Sōka, 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/soka/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Sōka now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 22:07 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).