SmogRank / United States / California / Madera
Madera, month by month
Madera, California has a measured daily mean on 1,338 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was December 2024, at 73 US AQI (21.1 µg/m³), 221st of 2,616 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was March 2025, at 23 US AQI (4.2 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 52 US AQI (9.4 µg/m³), against 51 US AQI (9.2 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
Madera's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | 7321.1 µg/m³ | 221stof 2,616 | South-western United States and Mexico, December 2024 to January 2025 California and Oregon, United States, December 2024 |
| December 2023 | 6416.2 µg/m³ | 254thof 2,247 | Western United States and Mexico, December 2023 California and Oregon, United States, December 2023 |
| December 2025 | 6315.5 µg/m³ | 703rdof 3,006 | California, United States, December 2025 |
| January 2025 | 6215.1 µg/m³ | 483rdof 2,474 | Western United States and Mexico, January and February 2025 South-western United States and Mexico, December 2024 to January 2025 |
| January 2026 | 6215.0 µg/m³ | 756thof 2,617 | California, United States, 30 January to 6 February 2026 California and Oregon, United States, January 2026 |
| November 2025 | 5913.3 µg/m³ | 662ndof 2,715 | – |
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.
Madera'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, Madera, California, 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/madera/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Madera 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).