SmogRank / World / United Kingdom / England / June 2025
Most polluted cities in England, United Kingdom, June 2025
53 cities in England, United Kingdom ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 30 days. Worst: Dartford at 10.1 µg/m³, #1,220 of 2,453 cities in the world. Cleanest: Saltash at 3.0. 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.
- 1Dartford 0%
- 2London 0%
- 3Scunthorpe 0%
- 4Speke 0%
- 5Kingston upon Hull 0%
- 6Manchester 0%
- 7Leeds 0%
- 7Hoo 0%
- 7Bexley 0%
- 10Plymouth 0%
- 11Newcastle upon Tyne 0%
- 11Hayes 0%
- 11Doncaster 0%
- 11Bristol 0%
- 15Brighton 0%
- 15Brightlingsea 0%
- 17Southampton 0%
- 18Seaford 0%
- 18Portsmouth 0%
- 20Preston 0%
- 20Leicester 0%
- 22Storrington 0%
- 22Derby 0%
- 24Wigan 0%
- 24Stoke-on-Trent 0%
- 24Sheffield 0%
- 24Liverpool 0%
- 24Cheadle Hulme 0%
- 24Birminghamlow-cost sensors 0%
- 30York 0%
- 31Sunderland 0%
- 31Norwich 0%
- 33Sheringham 0%
- 33Reading 0%
- 33Nottingham 0%
- 33Barnstaple 0%
- 33Barnsley 0%
- 38Irlam 0%
- 38Andover 0%
- 40Chesterfield 0%
- 40High Peak 0%
- 42Royal Leamington Spa 0%
- 42Cannock 0%
- 44Halesworth 0%
- 45Street 0%
- 46Honiton 0%
- 47Oxford 0%
- 47Gillingham 0%
- 49Warrington 0%
- 49Newton Abbot 0%
- 51Pickering 0%
- 52Middlesbrough 0%
- 53Saltash 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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