SmogRank / World / United Kingdom / England / October 2024
Most polluted cities in England, United Kingdom, October 2024
39 cities in England, United Kingdom ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Speke at 9.0 µg/m³, #601 of 1,966 cities in the world. Cleanest: Saltash at 3.7. 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.
- 1Speke 0%
- 1Leeds 0%
- 3Newcastle upon Tyne 0%
- 4Manchester 0%
- 4London 0%
- 4Kingston upon Hull 0%
- 7Birminghamlow-cost sensors 0%
- 8Sheffield 0%
- 9York 0%
- 9Chesterfield 0%
- 9Bexley 0%
- 12Wigan 0%
- 12Dartford 0%
- 12Barnsley 0%
- 15Stoke-on-Trent 0%
- 16Bristol 0%
- 17Liverpool 0%
- 17Hoo 0%
- 19Norwich 0%
- 19Canterbury 0%
- 21Portsmouth 0%
- 22Reading 0%
- 22Preston 0%
- 24Southampton 0%
- 24Middlesbrough 0%
- 24Royal Leamington Spa 0%
- 24Hayes 0%
- 28Storrington 0%
- 29Irlam 0%
- 29Halesworth 0%
- 31Andover 0%
- 32Brighton 0%
- 33Oxford 0%
- 33Barnstaple 0%
- 35Street 0%
- 35Pickering 0%
- 37Seaford 0%
- 38Sandy 0%
- 39Saltash 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, October 2024, smogrank.com/gb/region/england/history/2024-10 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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