SmogRank / United States / California / Ben Lomond
Ben Lomond, month by month
Ben Lomond has a measured daily mean on 1,228 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was January 2025, at 59 US AQI (13.4 µg/m³), 586th of 2,474 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was October 2025, at 16 US AQI (2.8 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 31 US AQI (5.5 µg/m³), against 36 US AQI (6.4 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
3 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Feb 2024 | 20 of 29 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 1 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 8 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2023 | 9 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 2 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2023 | 1 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 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.
Ben Lomond's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | 5913.4 µg/m³ | 586thof 2,474 | – |
| December 2024 | 519.3 µg/m³ | 1,004thof 2,616 | – |
| November 2024 | 478.4 µg/m³ | 1,230thof 2,624 | – |
| September 2026 | 478.4 µg/m³ | 910thof 2,981 | – |
| September 2023 | 458.1 µg/m³ | 1,077thof 2,176 | California and Oregon, United States, September 2023 |
| August 2026 | 447.9 µg/m³ | 1,670thof 2,896 | – |
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.
Ben Lomond's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Sept 2023 | 11240.1 µg/m³ | California and Oregon, United States, September 2023 |
| 21 Sept 2023 | 9030.0 µg/m³ | California and Oregon, United States, September 2023 |
| 22 Sept 2023 | 8125.4 µg/m³ | California and Oregon, United States, September 2023 |
| 11 Dec 2024 | 8024.7 µg/m³ | – |
| 10 Dec 2024 | 7421.4 µg/m³ | – |
| 23 Jan 2025 | 7119.9 µg/m³ | – |
| 31 Aug 2023 | 7119.7 µg/m³ | – |
| 15 Jan 2025 | 7019.5 µg/m³ | – |
| 16 Jan 2025 | 7019.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 28 Jan 2025 | 6717.9 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, Ben Lomond, United States, 1 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/ben-lomond/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Ben Lomond 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).