SmogRank / United States / Ohio / New Albany
New Albany, month by month
New Albany has a measured daily mean on 1,222 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was June 2023, at 74 US AQI (21.3 µg/m³), 244th of 1,603 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was May 2026, at 17 US AQI (3.1 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 39 US AQI (7.1 µg/m³), against 31 US AQI (5.6 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
4 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | 20 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 10 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Oct 2024 | 20 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 11 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2023 | 9 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 2 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| 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.
New Albany's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | 7421.3 µg/m³ | 244thof 1,603 | Eastern United States and Canada, June and July 2023 United States and Canada, June 2023and 1 more |
| July 2026 | 7019.4 µg/m³ | 357thof 2,784 | Northern United States and Canada, July 2026 |
| July 2023 | 5410.5 µg/m³ | 600thof 1,432 | United States and Canada, July 2023 North-eastern United States, 4 to 5 July 2023and 1 more |
| June 2025 | 5310.4 µg/m³ | 1,179thof 2,508 | Northern United States and Canada, May and June 2025 |
| January 2025 | 5310.1 µg/m³ | 981stof 2,474 | – |
| August 2026 | 519.2 µg/m³ | 1,132ndof 2,896 | – |
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.
New Albany's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Jul 2026 | 219144.0 µg/m³ | Northern United States and Canada, July 2026 |
| 28 Jun 2023 | 188108.0 µg/m³ | Eastern United States and Canada, June and July 2023 |
| 29 Jun 2023 | 183101.0 µg/m³ | Eastern United States and Canada, June and July 2023 |
| 27 Jun 2023 | 13448.8 µg/m³ | Eastern United States and Canada, June and July 2023 |
| 17 Jul 2023 | 12645.6 µg/m³ | United States and Canada, July 2023 |
| 7 Jun 2023 | 10436.8 µg/m³ | Eastern United States and Canada, May and June 2023 |
| 16 Jul 2026 | 9935.1 µg/m³ | Northern United States and Canada, July 2026 |
| 19 Jul 2026 | 9633.3 µg/m³ | Northern United States and Canada, July 2026 |
| 4 Jul 2023 | 9130.7 µg/m³ | North-eastern United States, 4 to 5 July 2023 |
| 20 Jul 2026 | 8929.6 µg/m³ | Northern United States and Canada, July 2026 |
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, New Albany, United States, 1 Jan 2023 – 12 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirNow, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/us/new-albany-ohio/history (accessed 13 Oct 2026).
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New Albany now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-13 04:07 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).