SmogRank / World / Spain / Canary Islands / February 2023
Most polluted cities in Canary Islands, Spain, February 2023
14 cities in Canary Islands, Spain ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 28 days. Worst: Arrecife at 26.5 µg/m³, #36 of 1,088 cities in the world. Cleanest: Santa Cruz de la Palma at 10.7. 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.
Ranked by unhealthy days: the share of each city's measured days with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse on the US EPA's scale. Ties go to the higher average.
- 1Arrecife 29%
- 2Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 18%
- 3Maspalomas 14%
- 4Santa Cruz de Tenerife 14%
- 5Ingenio 14%
- 6La Orotava 14%
- 7Arucas 11%
- 8Telde 11%
- 9San Isidro 7%
- 9Puerto del Rosario 7%
- 11Granadilla de Abona 7%
- 12Candelaria 7%
- 13Arona 7%
- 14Santa Cruz de la Palma 4%
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
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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Canary Islands, Spain, PM2.5, February 2023, smogrank.com/es/region/canary-islands/history/2023-02 (accessed 7 Oct 2026).
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