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Cities in Poland, worst air first, day by day
Each measured city's average over the 30 days to every day since January 2023, worst first. Find your own city to follow it through the race, or keep to one country.
The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 21 Feb 2023: Bielsko-Biala 31.6 µg/m³, Jastrzębie Zdrój 29.5 µg/m³ and Racibórz 28.8 µg/m³.
- 1Bielsko-BialaSilesia31.6
- 2Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia29.5
- 3RacibórzSilesia28.8
- 4LublinLublin27.0
- 5WłocławekKujawsko-Pomorskie26.9
- 6KłodzkoLower Silesia26.7
- 7ŁaskŁódź Voivodeship25.3
- 8RzeszówSubcarpathia25.1
- 9OtwockMazovia25.1
- 10KatowiceSilesia24.4
- 11KrakówLesser Poland24.2
- 12KutnoŁódź Voivodeship23.6
- 13WawerMazovia23.5
- 14KrapkowiceOpole Voivodeship23.3
- 15RadomMazovia23.1
- 16Wodzisław ŚląskiSilesia22.9
- 17CieszynSilesia22.9
- 18KrosnoSubcarpathia22.7
- 19JasłoSubcarpathia22.7
- 20LęborkPomerania22.7
+ 41 more cities, 22.3 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Wschowa since 5 Feb 2023, Włoszczowa since 5 Feb 2023, Szamotuły since 5 Feb 2023 and 2 more cities. Days missing from the source archive fall in this window, so fewer countries are counted.
Cities counted each day
A city's number is its average over the 30 days, shown only when 21 of them were measured (5 of 7 on the 7-day race), the same minimum as the 30- and 7-day boards. A city whose monitors go quiet fades out where it stood rather than sliding down, so a gap never reads as cleaner air. Some large countries are thin or missing because their monitors' licences don't allow reuse. How we rank.
Not covered: the government monitoring networks of China and Turkey, which publish only on their own websites; we are building the readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.