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Cities, 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.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to26 Feb 2023 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 26 Feb 2023: Banja Luka 63.6 µg/m³, Strumica 57.7 µg/m³ and Skopje 50.2 µg/m³.

  1. 1Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina63.6
  2. 2StrumicaNorth Macedonia57.7
  3. 3SkopjeNorth Macedonia50.2
  4. 4TetovoNorth Macedonia49.3
  5. 5MariglianoItaly49.3
  6. 6KavadarciNorth Macedonia49.0
  7. 7PrilepNorth Macedonia48.0
  8. 8GevgelijaNorth Macedonia44.0
  9. 9GostivarNorth Macedonia42.2
  10. 10Novo MestoSlovenia42.2
  11. 11KranjSlovenia37.8
  12. 12BitolaNorth Macedonia36.5
  13. 13LjubljanaSlovenia36.2
  14. 14Spišská Nová VesSlovakia35.9
  15. 15TrbovljeSlovenia35.2
  16. 16KorçëAlbania34.8
  17. 17BihaćBosnia and Herzegovina34.5
  18. 18IlindenNorth Macedonia34.2
  19. 19BelgradeSerbia33.8
  20. 20CeljeSlovenia33.4

+ 1,148 more cities, 33.0 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Ashgabat since 6 Feb 2023, Kigali since 6 Feb 2023, Addis Ababa since 6 Feb 2023 and 60 more cities. Days missing from the source archive fall in this window, so fewer countries are counted.

30 days7 days
GoodModerateSensitive groupsUnhealthyVery unhealthyHazardousWHO 24-hour guideline, 15 µg/m³Fades where it stood: not counted that 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.