SmogRank / World / Switzerland / May 2025

Most unhealthy days in Switzerland, May 2025

9 cities in Switzerland ranked by their share of unhealthy days over the 31 days. The most unhealthy days: Zürich, Switzerland, 1 of 23 measured days. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

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.

← Zürich 4% 4%0
Every city in Switzerland ranked for May 2025, one column each, ranked by unhealthy days: height is the share of its measured days that were unhealthy, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.
  1. 1ZürichZurich
    1 of 23
  2. 2Winterthurlow-cost sensorsZurich
    0 of 31
  3. 3BernBern
    0 of 23
  4. 4BaselBasel-City
    0 of 25
  5. 5PayerneVaud
    0 of 23
  6. 5KreuzlingenThurgau
    0 of 22
  7. 7GiubiascoTicino
    0 of 23
  8. 8LuganoTicino
    0 of 23
  9. 9KüssnachtSchwyz
    0 of 23

Low-cost sensors: consumer units, counted only in cities with no government-grade monitor; they read close to reference monitors on the whole, but 15 to 25% high in humid air. How we use them.

Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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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Regions

Basel-City 1Bern 1Schwyz 1Thurgau 1Ticino 2Vaud 1Zurich 2

Ranked cities in each region, May 2025.

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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Switzerland, by unhealthy days, PM2.5, May 2025, smogrank.com/ch/history/2025-05?by=days (accessed 10 Oct 2026). Some readings from 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.

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