SmogRank / Newton Abbot / Plymouth
Newton Abbot vs Plymouth: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Plymouth's air was about 1.8× as polluted as Newton Abbot's: PM2.5 averaged 9.5 µg/m³ against 5.4, on the 108 days both cities were measured. Plymouth had the dirtier air on 105 of those days, Newton Abbot on 3. Plymouth was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 8 of them, Newton Abbot on 5.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Newton Abbot | Plymouth | Days Newton Abbot was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 32 | 53 | 0 |
| 2025 | 29 | 43 | 8 |
| 2024 | 26 | 42 | 4 |
| 2023 | 29 | 48 | 3 |
Means in US AQI over the days both cities were measured that year; a year shows once they share 30 such days.
Each city's worst days
Newton Abbot
- 5 Mar 20268527.3 µg/m³
- 21 Mar 20268125.0 µg/m³
- 9 Mar 20267521.8 µg/m³
Plymouth
- 21 Mar 202610738.1 µg/m³
- 5 Mar 20268828.8 µg/m³
- 9 Mar 20268627.7 µg/m³
Daily means in US AQI, with µg/m³ beside them, since the index stops at its top value, over the days both cities were measured in the last year. Each date opens that day's world board.
Compare either city with another
Newton Abbot
Side by side with London (United Kingdom's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Plymouth
Side by side with Saltash (the nearest), London (United Kingdom's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Newton Abbot and Plymouth, 8 Oct 2025 – 7 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/gb-newton-abbot/gb-plymouth (accessed 8 Oct 2026).
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The same rules as every SmogRank figure: reference monitors first, and a day counts with 18 measured hours. How we measure.
Updated 2026-10-08 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 readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).