SmogRank / World / Germany / February 2023
Most polluted cities in Germany, February 2023
171 cities in Germany ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 28 days. Worst: Ludwigshafen am Rhein at 17.5 µg/m³, #224 of 1,175 cities in the world. Cleanest: Lubnjow at 6.7. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
OpenAQ's archive, where our readings come from, has almost none for 25 of these 28 days. Cities in the United States and Europe have them from the EPA's and the European Environment Agency's own records of the same monitors; many cities elsewhere are missing from this board, not clean. Why.
← Ludwigshafen am Rhein 17.5 µg/m³
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- 1Ludwigshafen am RheinRheinland-Pfalz 67
- 2KrefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia 66
- 3DattelnNorth Rhine-Westphalia 66
- 4OberhausenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 66
- 5IngolstadtBavaria 65
- 6TrierRheinland-Pfalz 65
- 7WormsRheinland-Pfalz 65
- 8PassauBavaria 65
- 8HagenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 65
- 10DuisburgNorth Rhine-Westphalia 65
- 11DortmundNorth Rhine-Westphalia 64
- 12SolingenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 64
- 13TeltowBrandenburg 63
- 13GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 63
- 13BorkenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 63
- 16MünsterNorth Rhine-Westphalia 63
- 16BerlinState of Berlin 63
- 18SchwerteNorth Rhine-Westphalia 63
- 18NeuwiedRheinland-Pfalz 63
- 18MannheimBaden-Wurttemberg 63
- 21BensheimHesse 62
- 22JüchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 62
- 22AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 62
- 24AnsbachBavaria 62
- 25MühlhausenThuringia 62
- 25DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia 62
- 25BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia 62
- 25BergheimNorth Rhine-Westphalia 62
- 29WeselNorth Rhine-Westphalia 62
- 29WeidenBavaria 62
- 31SpeyerRheinland-Pfalz 61
- 31MainzRheinland-Pfalz 61
- 31LindauBavaria 61
- 31KölnNorth Rhine-Westphalia 61
- 31FriedrichshafenBaden-Wurttemberg 61
- 31DillingenSaarland 61
- 37EberswaldeBrandenburg 61
- 38LampertheimHesse 61
- 38EssenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 61
- 40LörrachBaden-Wurttemberg 61
- 41Rüsselsheim am MainHesse 61
- 41NurembergBavaria 61
- 43OsnabrückLower Saxony 60
- 43KonstanzBaden-Wurttemberg 60
- 43EschbornHesse 60
- 46WuppertalNorth Rhine-Westphalia 60
- 46StuttgartBaden-Wurttemberg 60
- 46SaarbrückenSaarland 60
- 46RatingenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 60
- 46Neu-UlmBavaria 60
- 46BambergBavaria 60
- 52OldenburgLower Saxony 60
- 52MagdeburgSaxony-Anhalt 60
- 52KoblenzRheinland-Pfalz 60
- 52Kempten (Allgäu)Bavaria 60
- 56JülichNorth Rhine-Westphalia 60
- 56Frankfurt am MainHesse 60
- 58Limburg an der LahnHesse 60
- 58KehlBaden-Wurttemberg 60
- 58HeilbronnBaden-Wurttemberg 60
- 58BonnNorth Rhine-Westphalia 60
- 62LüdenscheidNorth Rhine-Westphalia 59
- 62BremenBremen 59
- 64CoburgBavaria 59
- 65KelheimBavaria 59
- 65Halle (Saale)Saxony-Anhalt 59
- 65BraunschweigLower Saxony 59
- 68LuckenwaldeBrandenburg 59
- 68KarlsruheBaden-Wurttemberg 59
- 68HamburgHamburg 59
- 68GroßostheimBavaria 59
- 68Bernau bei BerlinBrandenburg 59
- 68Blankenfelde-MahlowBrandenburg 59
- 74WarsteinNorth Rhine-Westphalia 59
- 74TübingenBaden-Wurttemberg 59
- 74MönchengladbachNorth Rhine-Westphalia 59
- 74KaiserslauternRheinland-Pfalz 59
- 78UlmBaden-Wurttemberg 58
- 78GreizThuringia 58
- 78Bitterfeld-WolfenSaxony-Anhalt 58
- 81BremerhavenBremen 58
- 82WürzburgBavaria 58
- 82MarktredwitzBavaria 58
- 82LeverkusenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 58
- 82GießenHesse 58
- 82Frankfurt (Oder)Brandenburg 58
- 82DarmstadtHesse 58
- 82FilderstadtBaden-Wurttemberg 58
- 89ReutlingenBaden-Wurttemberg 58
- 89Eggenstein-LeopoldshafenBaden-Wurttemberg 58
- 91LudwigsburgBaden-Wurttemberg 58
- 92Schwandorf in BayernBavaria 58
- 92NordhausenThuringia 58
- 92HildesheimLower Saxony 58
- 92HattingenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 58
- 92HannoverLower Saxony 58
- 92FriesoytheLower Saxony 58
- 92DelmenhorstLower Saxony 58
- 99WeißenfelsSaxony-Anhalt 57
- 99SalzgitterLower Saxony 57
- 99KasselHesse 57
- 99FreiburgBaden-Wurttemberg 57
- 99EisenhüttenstadtBrandenburg 57
- 104WiesbadenHesse 57
- 104StralsundMecklenburg-Vorpommern 57
- 104CottbusBrandenburg 57
- 104Bad KreuznachRheinland-Pfalz 57
- 108OytenLower Saxony 57
- 109UnnaNorth Rhine-Westphalia 57
- 109Brandenburg an der HavelBrandenburg 57
- 109AugsburgBavaria 57
- 112WismarMecklenburg-Vorpommern 56
- 112RostockMecklenburg-Vorpommern 56
- 112PotsdamBrandenburg 56
- 112FuldaHesse 56
- 116SchwerinMecklenburg-Vorpommern 56
- 116PforzheimBaden-Wurttemberg 56
- 116NauenBrandenburg 56
- 116MunichBavaria 56
- 116AschaffenburgBavaria 56
- 121WieslochBaden-Wurttemberg 56
- 121NeuruppinBrandenburg 56
- 121KöthenSaxony-Anhalt 56
- 121ErfurtThuringia 56
- 121BurghausenBavaria 56
- 126RintelnLower Saxony 56
- 126GöttingenLower Saxony 56
- 128SaalfeldThuringia 56
- 128Marburg an der LahnHesse 56
- 128ItzehoeSchleswig-Holstein 56
- 128FlensburgSchleswig-Holstein 56
- 132Schwedt (Oder)Brandenburg 55
- 132Lauda-KönigshofenBaden-Wurttemberg 55
- 134WeimarThuringia 55
- 134Königs WusterhausenBrandenburg 55
- 136LingenLower Saxony 55
- 136KielSchleswig-Holstein 55
- 136HeidelbergBaden-Wurttemberg 55
- 136FalkenseeBrandenburg 55
- 136Burg bei MagdeburgSaxony-Anhalt 55
- 136Biberach an der RißBaden-Wurttemberg 55
- 142AltenburgThuringia 55
- 143WittenbergeBrandenburg 55
- 143WilhelmshavenLower Saxony 55
- 143MüllheimBaden-Wurttemberg 55
- 143JenaThuringia 55
- 147SuhlThuringia 55
- 147SoestNorth Rhine-Westphalia 55
- 147HattersheimHesse 55
- 150TraunreutBavaria 54
- 150HerrenbergBaden-Wurttemberg 54
- 150EisenachThuringia 54
- 153GüstrowMecklenburg-Vorpommern 54
- 153AalenBaden-Wurttemberg 54
- 155NeuenhagenBrandenburg 54
- 156NeubrandenburgMecklenburg-Vorpommern 54
- 157LübeckSchleswig-Holstein 53
- 158HalberstadtSaxony-Anhalt 53
- 158Baden-BadenBaden-Wurttemberg 53
- 160KleinmachnowBrandenburg 53
- 161StrausbergBrandenburg 52
- 162Hansestadt SalzwedelSaxony-Anhalt 52
- 163Villingen-SchwenningenBaden-Wurttemberg 48
- 163MeiningenThuringia 48
- 165BendorfRheinland-Pfalz 47
- 166StarnbergBavaria 46
- 167NetphenNorth Rhine-Westphalia 43
- 168MarsbergNorth Rhine-Westphalia 40
- 169WitzenhausenHesse 39
- 170GoslarLower Saxony 38
- 171LubnjowBrandenburg 37
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+
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