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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.

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The 30 days to22 Apr 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 22 Apr 2023: Jastrzębie Zdrój 24.4 µg/m³, Lwówek Śląski 21.4 µg/m³ and Racibórz 20.1 µg/m³.

  1. 1Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia24.4
  2. 2Lwówek ŚląskiLower Silesia21.4
  3. 3RacibórzSilesia20.1
  4. 4Czechowice-DziedziceSilesia18.7
  5. 5LublinLublin18.6
  6. 6ŁaskŁódź Voivodeship18.6
  7. 7Bielsko-BialaSilesia17.9
  8. 8Wodzisław ŚląskiSilesia17.7
  9. 9KłodzkoLower Silesia17.3
  10. 10CieszynSilesia17.1
  11. 11KatowiceSilesia16.5
  12. 12WschowaLubusz16.2
  13. 13KrakówLesser Poland16.2
  14. 14RadomMazovia16.0
  15. 15WłoszczowaŚwiętokrzyskie15.9
  16. 16ŻyrardówMazovia15.5
  17. 17OtwockMazovia15.3
  18. 18WłocławekKujawsko-Pomorskie15.3
  19. 19TarnówLesser Poland15.1
  20. 20OpoleOpole Voivodeship15.1

+ 41 more cities, 14.6 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Ełk since 18 Apr 2023, Kościan since 15 Apr 2023, Starachowice since 13 Apr 2023 and 8 more cities. Days missing from the source archive fall in this window, so fewer countries are counted.

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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.