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Cities in Spain, 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 30 days to25 Apr 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Spain for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 25 Apr 2023: San Isidro 17.1 µg/m³, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 15.9 µg/m³ and San Sebastián de la Gomera 15.1 µg/m³.

  1. 1San IsidroCanary Islands17.1
  2. 2Las Palmas de Gran CanariaCanary Islands15.9
  3. 3San Sebastián de la GomeraCanary Islands15.1
  4. 4ArrecifeCanary Islands14.1
  5. 5Santa Cruz de TenerifeCanary Islands13.4
  6. 6Puerto del RosarioCanary Islands12.9
  7. 7VigoGalicia12.9
  8. 8La OrotavaCanary Islands12.7
  9. 9OviedoAsturias12.7
  10. 10GijónAsturias12.7
  11. 11IngenioCanary Islands12.5
  12. 12Lomo de AricoCanary Islands12.0
  13. 13SamaAsturias11.7
  14. 14La Línea de la ConcepciónAndalusia11.6
  15. 15VecindarioCanary Islands11.4
  16. 16ArucasCanary Islands11.0
  17. 17Granadilla de AbonaCanary Islands10.9
  18. 18CandelariaCanary Islands10.9
  19. 19BailénAndalusia10.9
  20. 20CeeGalicia10.7

+ 69 more cities, 10.6 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Durango since 21 Apr 2023, Xàtiva since 13 Apr 2023, Puertollano since 30 Mar 2023 and 11 more cities. Days missing from the source archive fall in this window, so fewer countries are counted.

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.