SmogRank / World / United Kingdom / England / August 2025
Most polluted cities in England, United Kingdom, August 2025
55 cities in England, United Kingdom ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Northampton at 8.7 µg/m³, #1,534 of 2,841 cities in the world. Cleanest: Middlesbrough at 3.9. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
About 0 people in these 2 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of August 2025.
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.
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, August 2025, smogrank.com/gb/region/england/history/2025-08 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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