SmogRank / World / Europe / Germany / Saxony-Anhalt
Most polluted cities in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
16 measured cities, this year; 16 above the WHO annual guideline. Worst: Bernburg at 13.2 µg/m³, #648 in the world.
About 1.51K people in this city breathed unhealthy air on an average day so far this year.
Ranked by people: each city's population times its share of unhealthy days, those with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+). That is how many people living there breathed unhealthy air on an average day. Only cities measured at 2 or more places at least 3 km apart are ranked: one monitor shouldn't speak for a whole city. Population is the city itself, not its wider metro area.
Cities coloured by their PM2.5 over the last 24 hours. Fires, smoke and ash: Oct 5, the newest UTC day mapped.
- 1Wittenberg 1.51K
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
Estimated: cities without a monitor
Saxony-Anhalt cities we can't measure, with model estimates for the last 7 days. Listed by population, not ranked: estimates aren't precise enough to rank. Model estimates from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), adjusted to measured cities nearby where there are any. Adjusted, a single day lands within ×1.5 of what a monitor would read about two times in three; unadjusted, it can be off by half or double. Treat them as a guide, not a measurement.
| City | 7-day estimate |
|---|---|
| Schönebeck | ≈ 13 µg/m³ |
| Naumburg | ≈ 14 µg/m³ |
| Köthen | ≈ 13 µg/m³ |
| Aschersleben | ≈ 12 µg/m³ |
| Wolfen | ≈ 13 µg/m³ |
| Sangerhausen | ≈ 11 µg/m³ |
| Staßfurt | ≈ 12 µg/m³ |
| Quedlinburg | ≈ 9 µg/m³ |
| Eisleben Lutherstadt | ≈ 13 µg/m³ |
| Zerbst | ≈ 13 µg/m³ |
| Hansestadt Salzwedel | ≈ 9 µg/m³ |
| Haldensleben I | ≈ 11 µg/m³ |
| Oschersleben | ≈ 9 µg/m³ |
| Blankenburg | ≈ 8 µg/m³ |
| Hettstedt | ≈ 12 µg/m³ |
Bad-air episodes in Saxony-Anhalt
- Europe, 18 to 25 March 20268 days430 cities136 µg/m³peak, Łask
- Europe, 1 to 12 March 202612 days532 cities109 µg/m³peak, Radomsko
- Germany, Poland and Czechia, February 202617 to 18 February 2026, 2 days67 cities91 µg/m³peak, Kalisz
- Europe, January and February 202612 January to 12 February 2026, 32 days625 cities252 µg/m³peak, Travnik
- Eastern Europe, January 20269 to 10 January 2026, 2 days86 cities210 µg/m³peak, Bijelo Polje
- Europe, December 2025 to January 202625 December 2025 to 2 January 2026, 9 days189 cities110 µg/m³peak, Kempten (Allgäu)
Times when many cities around here had PM2.5 at twice their usual or more on the same days.
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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, PM2.5, this year to 6 Oct 2026, 23:00 UTC, smogrank.com/de/region/saxony-anhalt?w=year.
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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.