SmogRank / United States / Oregon / Madras
Madras, month by month
Madras, Oregon has a measured daily mean on 1,292 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was August 2026, at 102 US AQI (35.9 µg/m³), 68th of 2,896 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was June 2024, at 14 US AQI (2.6 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 38 US AQI (6.9 µg/m³), against 37 US AQI (6.7 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
3 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 7 of 11 days measured; a month needs 8. The others: 4 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Mar 2023 | 11 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Feb 2023 | 1 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 2 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours), 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Madras's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 10235.9 µg/m³ | 68thof 2,896 | North-western United States and Canada, 25 to 26 August 2026 North-western United States and Canada, 4 to 22 August 2026and 1 more |
| August 2023 | 8225.7 µg/m³ | 72ndof 1,980 | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| July 2026 | 6717.9 µg/m³ | 395thof 2,784 | North-western United States and Canada, July and August 2026 |
| January 2023 | 5511.3 µg/m³ | 377thof 1,261 | – |
| August 2024 | 5511.3 µg/m³ | 409thof 2,010 | Oregon, Idaho and Utah, United States, August 2024 |
| January 2025 | 5511.3 µg/m³ | 804thof 2,474 | – |
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.
Madras'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, Madras, Oregon, 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/madras/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Madras 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).