SmogRank / Mozambique / Maputo City / Maputo
Maputo, month by month
Maputo has a measured daily mean on 479 days since 20 January 2024. Its worst month was July 2024, at 117 US AQI (42.1 µg/m³), 40th of 2,566 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was February 2024, at 46 US AQI (8.3 µg/m³).
Every month since 2024
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
17 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2026 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| May 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2026 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2026 | No day measured. The others: 28 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jan 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Dec 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Nov 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Oct 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Sep 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Aug 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jul 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| May 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jan 2024 | 10 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 2 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Maputo's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 11742.1 µg/m³ | 40thof 2,566 |
| June 2024 | 8426.9 µg/m³ | 50thof 2,563 |
| August 2024 | 8326.1 µg/m³ | 59thof 2,010 |
| September 2024 | 7923.9 µg/m³ | 79thof 2,010 |
| May 2024 | 7421.4 µg/m³ | 131stof 2,684 |
| October 2024 | 6114.6 µg/m³ | 272ndof 2,020 |
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.
Maputo's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 12 Jul 2024 | 184102.0 µg/m³ |
| 11 Jul 2024 | 183101.0 µg/m³ |
| 17 Jul 2024 | 16879.7 µg/m³ |
| 10 Jul 2024 | 16677.1 µg/m³ |
| 26 Sept 2024 | 16473.6 µg/m³ |
| 13 Jul 2024 | 16068.8 µg/m³ |
| 13 Jun 2024 | 16067.7 µg/m³ |
| 18 Jul 2024 | 15561.0 µg/m³ |
| 14 Jul 2024 | 15459.1 µg/m³ |
| 1 Jul 2024 | 15257.1 µg/m³ |
Daily means, the highest since 20 Jan 2024; 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, Maputo, Mozambique, 20 Jan 2024 – 8 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirNow, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/mz/maputo/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Maputo now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 17:07 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).