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Most polluted cities in Maule Region, Chile, 2024

3 cities in Maule Region, Chile ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 366 days; 3 above the WHO annual guideline (5.0 µg/m³). Worst: Curicó at 32.7 µg/m³, #38 of 2,052 cities in the world. Cleanest: Talca at 26.5. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

OpenAQ's archive, where our readings come from, has almost none for one of these days. Cities in the United States and Europe have it 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.

← Curicó 26% 20%0
Every city in Maule Region, Chile ranked for 2024, 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. 1Curicó
    26%
  2. 2Talca
    21%
  3. 3Cauquenes
    20%
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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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Maule Region, Chile, PM2.5, 2024, smogrank.com/cl/region/maule-region/history/2024 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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