SmogRank / United States / Oregon / Salem
Salem, month by month
Salem, Oregon has a measured daily mean on 1,310 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was November 2023, at 59 US AQI (13.2 µg/m³), 215th of 2,243 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was June 2024, at 15 US AQI (2.7 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 30 US AQI (5.4 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
2 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| 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: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 2 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Salem's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | 5913.2 µg/m³ | 215thof 2,243 | North-western United States and Canada, October and November 2023 |
| January 2025 | 5410.6 µg/m³ | 899thof 2,474 | Western United States and Mexico, January and February 2025 |
| January 2026 | 5410.6 µg/m³ | 1,021stof 2,617 | Washington and Oregon, United States, January 2026 |
| August 2026 | 5310.0 µg/m³ | 895thof 2,896 | North-western United States and Canada, 4 to 22 August 2026 |
| November 2024 | 529.7 µg/m³ | 909thof 2,624 | North-western United States and Canada, November 2024 |
| October 2023 | 519.1 µg/m³ | 474thof 2,012 | North-western United States and Canada, October and November 2023 |
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.
Salem'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, Salem, 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/salem/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Salem 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).