SmogRank / United States / Texas / Amarillo
Amarillo, month by month
Amarillo has a measured daily mean on 872 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was July 2024, at 49 US AQI (8.9 µg/m³), 1,046th of 2,566 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was January 2023, at 19 US AQI (3.5 µg/m³). 2024 averaged 36 US AQI (6.4 µg/m³), against 34 US AQI (6.1 µg/m³) in 2023.
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
17 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 13 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 18 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. |
| Nov 2025 | No day measured. |
| Oct 2025 | No day measured. |
| Sep 2025 | No day measured. |
| Aug 2025 | No day measured. |
| Jul 2025 | No day measured. |
| Jun 2025 | No day measured. |
| May 2025 | No day measured. |
| Apr 2025 | No day measured. |
| Mar 2025 | No day measured. |
| Feb 2025 | No day measured. |
| Jan 2025 | No day measured. |
| Dec 2024 | 8 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 23 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Nov 2024 | 12 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 18 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.
Amarillo's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 498.9 µg/m³ | 1,046thof 2,566 |
| July 2023 | 468.2 µg/m³ | 833rdof 1,432 |
| August 2026 | 468.2 µg/m³ | 1,533rdof 2,896 |
| August 2024 | 458.1 µg/m³ | 1,194thof 2,010 |
| August 2023 | 437.8 µg/m³ | 1,071stof 1,980 |
| May 2023 | 437.7 µg/m³ | 996thof 1,600 |
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.
Amarillo's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Feb 2024 | 15358.1 µg/m³ | – |
| 20 May 2023 | 12946.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 26 Feb 2023 | 10236.0 µg/m³ | Texas and Oklahoma, United States, February 2023 |
| 4 Apr 2023 | 9029.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 19 May 2023 | 8125.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 24 Jul 2024 | 7421.4 µg/m³ | – |
| 21 May 2023 | 6818.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 18 May 2026 | 6617.1 µg/m³ | – |
| 25 Jul 2024 | 6616.9 µg/m³ | – |
| 28 Jul 2023 | 6516.4 µg/m³ | – |
Daily means, the highest since 1 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, Amarillo, United States, 1 Jan 2023 – 8 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirNow, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/us/amarillo/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Amarillo now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 18:07 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).