SmogRank / World / United States / Indiana / January 2023
Most polluted cities in Indiana, United States, January 2023
14 cities in Indiana, United States ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Indianapolis at 12.9 µg/m³, #313 of 1,225 cities in the world. Cleanest: Bloomington at 6.7. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
OpenAQ's archive, where our readings come from, has almost none for 7 of these 31 days. Cities in the United States and Europe have them from the EPA's and the European Environment Agency's own records of the same monitors; elsewhere a city's average is over its other days. Why.
Ranked by unhealthy days: the share of each city's measured days with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse on the US EPA's scale. Ties go to the higher average.
- 1Indianapolis 0%
- 2East Chicago 0%
- 3South Bend 0%
- 4Hammond 0%
- 5Columbia City 0%
- 6Anderson 0%
- 7Jeffersonville 0%
- 8Portage 0%
- 9Elkhart 0%
- 10Lafayette 0%
- 11Kokomo 0%
- 12Gary 0%
- 13Columbus 0%
- 14Bloomington 0%
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
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