SmogRank / United States / Minnesota / Brainerd
Brainerd, month by month
Brainerd has a measured daily mean on 1,318 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was July 2026, at 78 US AQI (23.4 µg/m³), 247th of 2,784 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was June 2024, at 19 US AQI (3.4 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 43 US AQI (7.8 µg/m³), against 33 US AQI (5.9 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
2 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Mar 2023 | 11 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Feb 2023 | 3 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Brainerd's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 7823.4 µg/m³ | 247thof 2,784 | Northern United States and Canada, July 2026 |
| July 2025 | 7421.7 µg/m³ | 174thof 2,889 | North-eastern United States and Canada, 29 July to 9 August 2025 North-eastern United States and Canada, 24 to 28 July 2025and 2 more |
| June 2023 | 6516.7 µg/m³ | 342ndof 1,603 | Eastern United States and Canada, June and July 2023 United States and Canada, June 2023and 1 more |
| August 2025 | 5812.9 µg/m³ | 587thof 2,901 | Northern United States and Canada, August 2025 North-eastern United States and Canada, 29 July to 9 August 2025 |
| August 2023 | 5812.7 µg/m³ | 287thof 1,980 | Northern United States, August 2023 Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, United States, August 2023 |
| July 2023 | 5812.6 µg/m³ | 328thof 1,432 | Northern United States and Canada, July 2023 Eastern United States and Canada, June and July 2023 |
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.
Brainerd's worst days
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, Brainerd, 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/brainerd/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Brainerd 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).