SmogRank / World / United Kingdom / England / June 2024
Most polluted cities in England, United Kingdom, June 2024
46 cities in England, United Kingdom ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 30 days. Worst: Grays at 8.1 µg/m³, #1,245 of 2,517 cities in the world. Cleanest: Pickering at 3.8. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
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.
- 1Grays 0%
- 2Manchester 0%
- 3Brighton 0%
- 4London 0%
- 4Bristol 0%
- 6Plymouth 0%
- 7Dartford 0%
- 7Canterbury 0%
- 9Portsmouth 0%
- 9Leeds 0%
- 9Bexley 0%
- 12Birminghamlow-cost sensors 0%
- 13Stoke-on-Trent 0%
- 14Brightlingsea 0%
- 15Sheffield 0%
- 16Preston 0%
- 17Southampton 0%
- 17Gillingham 0%
- 19Wigan 0%
- 19Seaford 0%
- 19Norwich 0%
- 19Kingston upon Hull 0%
- 23York 0%
- 23Saltash 0%
- 25Honiton 0%
- 25Hayes 0%
- 27Irlam 0%
- 27Barnstaple 0%
- 27Barnsley 0%
- 27Andover 0%
- 31Warrington 0%
- 31Sheringham 0%
- 31Reading 0%
- 31Liverpool 0%
- 31Halesworth 0%
- 36Street 0%
- 36Newton Abbot 0%
- 36Newcastle upon Tyne 0%
- 36Royal Leamington Spa 0%
- 36Dagenham 0%
- 36Chesterfield 0%
- 42Burwell 0%
- 43Middlesbrough 0%
- 44Oxford 0%
- 45Sandy 0%
- 46Pickering 0%
Low-cost sensors: consumer units, counted only in cities with no government-grade monitor; they read close to reference monitors on the whole, but 15 to 25% high in humid air. How we use them.
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 England, United Kingdom, PM2.5, June 2024, smogrank.com/gb/region/england/history/2024-06 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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