SmogRank / United States / New Mexico / Albuquerque
Albuquerque, month by month
Albuquerque has a measured daily mean on 1,325 days since 11 January 2023. Its worst month was December 2024, at 63 US AQI (15.8 µg/m³), 424th of 2,616 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was September 2026, at 22 US AQI (3.9 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 47 US AQI (8.4 µg/m³), against 46 US AQI (8.3 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 |
|---|---|
| Jan 2023 | 7 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 14 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.
Albuquerque's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | 6315.8 µg/m³ | 424thof 2,616 |
| December 2025 | 5612.0 µg/m³ | 974thof 3,006 |
| January 2025 | 5611.8 µg/m³ | 745thof 2,474 |
| January 2026 | 5511.3 µg/m³ | 968thof 2,617 |
| October 2024 | 5410.9 µg/m³ | 455thof 2,020 |
| November 2025 | 5410.5 µg/m³ | 939thof 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.
Albuquerque's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2023 | 13549.2 µg/m³ | – |
| 30 Jun 2024 | 12846.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 23 Dec 2024 | 8929.6 µg/m³ | – |
| 31 May 2025 | 8828.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 5 Jul 2025 | 8427.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 12 Dec 2024 | 8225.7 µg/m³ | – |
| 18 Mar 2025 | 8225.5 µg/m³ | South-western United States and Mexico, March 2025 |
| 6 Jul 2024 | 8125.1 µg/m³ | – |
| 1 Jan 2026 | 7823.7 µg/m³ | – |
| 1 Jan 2024 | 7823.5 µg/m³ | – |
Daily means, the highest since 11 Jan 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, Albuquerque, United States, 11 Jan 2023 – 11 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirNow, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/us/albuquerque/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Albuquerque now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 19:07 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).