SmogRank / Breda / Hoensbroek

Breda vs Hoensbroek: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Breda's air was 33% more polluted than Hoensbroek's: PM2.5 averaged 7.2 µg/m³ against 5.4, on the 51 days both cities were measured. Breda had the dirtier air on 39 of those days, Hoensbroek on 11. Breda was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 2 of them, Hoensbroek on 0.

Right now

Breda#98on the 24-hour board of 1,669, at 73 US AQI (20.7 µg/m³)
Hoensbroek#783on the 24-hour board of 1,669, at 41 US AQI (7.4 µg/m³)

The last year, day by day

Breda
Hoensbroek
Each city's daily mean from 7 Oct 2025 to 6 Oct 2026, one stripe a day, coloured by band. A blank stripe is a day without a daily mean.

Month by month

15Nov 2025DecJan 2026FebMarAprMayJunJulBreda, Aug: 6.1 µg/m³Hoensbroek, Aug: 5.8 µg/m³AugBreda, Sep: 7.1 µg/m³Hoensbroek, Sep: 4.9 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Breda. Faded: Hoensbroek. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline.

Each city's worst days

Breda

Hoensbroek

Daily means in US AQI, over the days both cities were measured in the last year. Each date opens that day's world board.

Compare either city with another

Breda

Side by side with Tilburg, Venray, Gujranwala.

Hoensbroek

Side by side with Heerlen, Gujranwala.

Use this page

SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Breda and Hoensbroek, 13 Aug 2026 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/nl-breda/nl-hoensbroek (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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Updated 2026-10-06 23:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.