SmogRank / United States / Florida / Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, month by month
Fort Lauderdale has a measured daily mean on 1,261 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was July 2023, at 61 US AQI (14.4 µg/m³), 174th of 1,432 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was September 2025, at 24 US AQI (4.4 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 41 US AQI (7.4 µg/m³), against 49 US AQI (8.8 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
5 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 18 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 13 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2026 | 11 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 19 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| May 2026 | 18 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 13 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| 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.
Fort Lauderdale's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | 6114.4 µg/m³ | 174thof 1,432 |
| July 2024 | 5913.5 µg/m³ | 257thof 2,566 |
| January 2023 | 5813.1 µg/m³ | 308thof 1,261 |
| August 2023 | 5712.1 µg/m³ | 329thof 1,980 |
| May 2024 | 5511.1 µg/m³ | 585thof 2,684 |
| August 2024 | 529.7 µg/m³ | 682ndof 2,010 |
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.
Fort Lauderdale's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 2024 | 11340.2 µg/m³ | Florida and Georgia, United States, December 2023 to January 2024 |
| 3 Oct 2023 | 11039.3 µg/m³ | South-eastern United States, October 2023 |
| 1 Jan 2023 | 9231.2 µg/m³ | – |
| 24 Jul 2023 | 8527.4 µg/m³ | – |
| 11 Jul 2024 | 8527.4 µg/m³ | – |
| 25 Jul 2023 | 8225.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 16 Aug 2026 | 8024.7 µg/m³ | – |
| 31 Dec 2023 | 8024.5 µg/m³ | Florida and Georgia, United States, December 2023 to January 2024 |
| 20 Jul 2023 | 7924.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 7823.8 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, Fort Lauderdale, 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/fort-lauderdale/history (accessed 13 Oct 2026).
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Fort Lauderdale now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-13 02:07 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).