SmogRank / United States / Minnesota / Virginia
Virginia, month by month
Virginia, Minnesota has a measured daily mean on 1,309 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was July 2026, at 95 US AQI (32.8 µg/m³), 104th of 2,784 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was April 2024, at 17 US AQI (3.0 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 51 US AQI (9.1 µg/m³), against 32 US AQI (5.8 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 | 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.
Virginia's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 9532.8 µg/m³ | 104thof 2,784 | Northern United States and Canada, July 2026 |
| July 2025 | 9231.2 µg/m³ | 81stof 2,889 | North-eastern United States and Canada, 29 July to 9 August 2025 North-eastern United States and Canada, 24 to 28 July 2025and 2 more |
| June 2023 | 6717.9 µg/m³ | 309thof 1,603 | Eastern United States and Canada, June and July 2023 United States and Canada, June 2023and 1 more |
| August 2025 | 6717.8 µg/m³ | 249thof 2,901 | Northern United States and Canada, August 2025 North-eastern United States and Canada, 29 July to 9 August 2025 |
| June 2025 | 5913.4 µg/m³ | 612thof 2,508 | Northern United States and Canada, May and June 2025 |
| August 2023 | 5712.3 µg/m³ | 311thof 1,980 | Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, United States, August 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.
Virginia'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, Virginia, Minnesota, 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/virginia/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Virginia now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 22:07 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).