Payerne vs Baume-les-Dames: PM2.5 compared

Payerne and Baume-les-Dames were both measured on only 10 days over the last year, too few to compare them (it takes 30).

Right now

Payerne#2,114on the 24-hour board of 2,608, at 17 US AQI (3.1 µg/m³)

Baume-les-Dames#1,726on the 24-hour board of 2,608, at 24 US AQI (4.4 µg/m³)

Compare either city with another

Payerne

Side by side with Giubiasco (Switzerland's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

Baume-les-Dames

Side by side with Besançon (the nearest), Nice (France's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

The same rules as every SmogRank figure: reference monitors first, and a day counts with 18 measured hours. How we measure.

Updated 2026-10-10 10:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. 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).