SmogRank / United States / Mississippi / Waveland
Waveland, month by month
Waveland has a measured daily mean on 1,282 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was August 2023, at 56 US AQI (11.8 µg/m³), 367th of 1,980 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was May 2026, at 32 US AQI (5.8 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 43 US AQI (7.7 µg/m³), against 43 US AQI (7.7 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.
Waveland's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | 5611.8 µg/m³ | 367thof 1,980 |
| May 2023 | 5410.9 µg/m³ | 358thof 1,600 |
| October 2024 | 5410.8 µg/m³ | 465thof 2,020 |
| July 2023 | 5310.1 µg/m³ | 654thof 1,432 |
| August 2024 | 5310.0 µg/m³ | 610thof 2,010 |
| June 2023 | 529.9 µg/m³ | 809thof 1,603 |
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.
Waveland's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2023 | 9432.4 µg/m³ | – |
| 31 Dec 2023 | 9432.2 µg/m³ | – |
| 4 Oct 2023 | 9331.6 µg/m³ | South-eastern United States, October 2023 |
| 27 Aug 2023 | 8929.5 µg/m³ | – |
| 1 Jan 2024 | 8426.8 µg/m³ | Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, United States, January 2024 |
| 1 Jan 2026 | 7924.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 5 Nov 2023 | 7723.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 23 Feb 2025 | 7722.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 16 Oct 2025 | 7622.6 µg/m³ | – |
| 8 Feb 2026 | 7622.6 µg/m³ | – |
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, Waveland, 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/waveland/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Waveland now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 20:07 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).