SmogRank / Japan / Yamaguchi / Yanai
Yanai, month by month
Yanai has a measured daily mean on 1,155 days since 28 July 2023. Its worst month was July 2025, at 57 US AQI (12.2 µg/m³), 791st of 2,889 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was September 2026, at 34 US AQI (6.1 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 52 US AQI (9.4 µg/m³), against 44 US AQI (7.9 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
1 month
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| 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.
Yanai's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 5712.2 µg/m³ | 791stof 2,889 | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| March 2025 | 5410.9 µg/m³ | 1,430thof 2,862 | Japan and South Korea, February and March 2025 |
| April 2025 | 5410.8 µg/m³ | 985thof 2,951 | – |
| June 2025 | 5410.7 µg/m³ | 1,091stof 2,508 | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| November 2023 | 5310.1 µg/m³ | 600thof 2,243 | Japan, November 2023 |
| May 2025 | 5310.0 µg/m³ | 862ndof 2,826 | – |
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.
Yanai's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Jul 2025 | 10737.8 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 4 Jul 2025 | 10235.9 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 10 Jul 2025 | 9331.7 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 5 Nov 2023 | 8427.0 µg/m³ | Japan, November 2023 |
| 23 Jan 2025 | 8427.0 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, 17 to 24 January 2025 |
| 27 Feb 2025 | 8226.0 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, February and March 2025 |
| 19 Oct 2023 | 8125.3 µg/m³ | Japan, October 2023 |
| 2 Jul 2025 | 8024.9 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, June and July 2025 |
| 24 Jan 2025 | 7923.9 µg/m³ | Japan and South Korea, 17 to 24 January 2025 |
| 5 Jul 2025 | 7823.7 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, Yanai, 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/yanai/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Yanai now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 20:07 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).