SmogRank / History / City race
Cities in The Netherlands, 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 The Netherlands for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 21 May 2023: 's-Gravenzande 10.6 µg/m³, Maassluis 9.4 µg/m³ and Rotterdam 8.9 µg/m³.
- 1's-GravenzandeSouth Holland10.6
- 2MaassluisSouth Holland9.4
- 3RotterdamSouth Holland8.9
- 4RidderkerkSouth Holland8.7
- 5UtrechtUtrecht8.4
- 6VenrayLimburg8.3
- 7NijmegenGelderland8.2
- 8EindhovenNorth Brabant8.2
- 9BarneveldGelderland7.4
- 10BredaNorth Brabant7.0
- 11MedemblikNorth Holland6.7
- 12HeerlenLimburg6.4
- 13MaarssenUtrecht6.0
- 14GroningenGroningen6.0
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: The Hague since 19 May 2023, IJsselstein since 19 May 2023, Enschede since 19 May 2023 and 18 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.