SmogRank / United States / Texas / Lubbock
Lubbock, month by month
Lubbock has a measured daily mean on 1,292 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was March 2025, at 54 US AQI (10.9 µg/m³), 1,430th of 2,862 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was January 2023, at 17 US AQI (3.1 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 32 US AQI (5.8 µg/m³), against 29 US AQI (5.2 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 |
|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | 16 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 12 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Nov 2025 | 9 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 21 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.
Lubbock's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | 5410.9 µg/m³ | 1,430thof 2,862 | South-western United States and Mexico, March 2025 United States and Mexico, March 2025 |
| February 2023 | 468.2 µg/m³ | 803rdof 1,129 | Texas and Oklahoma, United States, February 2023 |
| July 2024 | 427.6 µg/m³ | 1,494thof 2,566 | – |
| August 2024 | 417.4 µg/m³ | 1,430thof 2,010 | – |
| July 2023 | 407.2 µg/m³ | 958thof 1,432 | – |
| April 2025 | 407.2 µg/m³ | 1,971stof 2,951 | South-western United States and Mexico, April 2025 |
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.
Lubbock's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Mar 2025 | 16777.8 µg/m³ | South-western United States and Mexico, March 2025 |
| 26 Feb 2023 | 16169.3 µg/m³ | Texas and Oklahoma, United States, February 2023 |
| 14 Mar 2025 | 15257.0 µg/m³ | United States and Mexico, March 2025 |
| 4 Apr 2023 | 9532.7 µg/m³ | – |
| 1 Apr 2025 | 9432.1 µg/m³ | South-western United States and Mexico, April 2025 |
| 20 May 2023 | 9030.2 µg/m³ | – |
| 3 Mar 2025 | 9029.9 µg/m³ | – |
| 22 Feb 2023 | 8829.1 µg/m³ | – |
| 27 Feb 2023 | 8627.7 µg/m³ | Texas and Oklahoma, United States, February 2023 |
| 6 Mar 2025 | 8426.6 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, Lubbock, 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/lubbock/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Lubbock 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).