SmogRank / United States / Alaska / Fairbanks
Fairbanks, month by month
Fairbanks has a measured daily mean on 1,291 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was June 2024, at 80 US AQI (24.8 µg/m³), 64th of 2,563 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was May 2026, at 9 US AQI (1.6 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 47 US AQI (8.4 µg/m³), against 52 US AQI (9.4 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
2 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Mar 2023 | 10 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 1 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.
Fairbanks's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | 8024.8 µg/m³ | 64thof 2,563 |
| August 2023 | 7723.3 µg/m³ | 93rdof 1,980 |
| January 2026 | 6516.4 µg/m³ | 670thof 2,617 |
| January 2023 | 6315.5 µg/m³ | 232ndof 1,261 |
| July 2025 | 6214.9 µg/m³ | 415thof 2,889 |
| December 2025 | 6214.9 µg/m³ | 733rdof 3,006 |
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.
Fairbanks's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2024 | 271196.5 µg/m³ |
| 7 Aug 2023 | 219144.0 µg/m³ |
| 29 Jun 2024 | 186105.0 µg/m³ |
| 6 Aug 2023 | 185104.5 µg/m³ |
| 10 Aug 2023 | 185104.5 µg/m³ |
| 7 Jul 2025 | 17487.8 µg/m³ |
| 9 Aug 2023 | 16778.6 µg/m³ |
| 6 Jul 2025 | 16777.9 µg/m³ |
| 28 Jun 2024 | 16677.3 µg/m³ |
| 1 Jul 2024 | 16676.7 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, Fairbanks, 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/fairbanks/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Fairbanks 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).