SmogRank / History / City race
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.
The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 23 Mar 2023: Banja Luka 37.7 µg/m³, Włocławek 35.4 µg/m³ and Lublin 35.2 µg/m³.
- 1Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina37.7
- 2WłocławekPoland35.4
- 3LublinPoland35.2
- 4KościanPoland34.5
- 5KrakówPoland34.0
- 6Czechowice-DziedzicePoland33.6
- 7BohumínCzechia32.4
- 8Wodzisław ŚląskiPoland32.4
- 9ŁaskPoland32.1
- 10Jastrzębie ZdrójPoland31.4
- 11KutnoPoland31.2
- 12OtwockPoland30.9
- 13RacibórzPoland30.4
- 14ToruńPoland30.1
- 15SiedlcePoland29.9
- 16Bielsko-BialaPoland28.2
- 17PułtuskPoland27.9
- 18BelgradeSerbia27.6
- 19ŁukówPoland27.4
- 20WawerPoland26.5
+ 912 more cities, 26.3 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Starachowice since 23 Mar 2023, Legionowo since 22 Mar 2023, Kielce since 22 Mar 2023 and 59 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.