SmogRank / United States / Washington / Mead
Mead, month by month
Mead has a measured daily mean on 1,276 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was August 2026, at 90 US AQI (29.8 µg/m³), 112th of 2,896 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was May 2024, at 11 US AQI (2.0 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 38 US AQI (6.8 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
3 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Jul 2025 | 16 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 13 with no readings from the monitors, 2 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.
Mead's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 9029.8 µg/m³ | 112thof 2,896 | North-western United States and Canada, 4 to 22 August 2026 North-western United States and Canada, July and August 2026 |
| August 2023 | 8326.2 µg/m³ | 70thof 1,980 | North-western United States and Canada, August 2023 |
| September 2025 | 6416.3 µg/m³ | 306thof 3,104 | North-western United States and Canada, September 2025 North-western Canada and United States, September 2025and 1 more |
| July 2026 | 6014.1 µg/m³ | 585thof 2,784 | North-western United States and Canada, July and August 2026 |
| November 2025 | 5511.5 µg/m³ | 813thof 2,715 | – |
| November 2023 | 5511.3 µg/m³ | 389thof 2,243 | – |
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.
Mead'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, Mead, 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/mead/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Mead 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).