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Cities in Chile, 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 to27 May 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Chile for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 27 May 2023: Osorno 63.5 µg/m³, Puerto Varas 53.6 µg/m³ and Nacimiento 53.5 µg/m³.

  1. 1OsornoLos Lagos Region63.5
  2. 2Puerto VarasLos Lagos Region53.6
  3. 3NacimientoBiobio53.5
  4. 4CoyhaiqueAysén52.4
  5. 5LinaresMaule Region51.3
  6. 6SantiagoSantiago Metropolitan46.9
  7. 7RancaguaO'Higgins Region45.5
  8. 8CuricóMaule Region45.2
  9. 9LajaBiobio44.8
  10. 10TalaganteSantiago Metropolitan43.5
  11. 11HualquiBiobio43.4
  12. 12CoronelBiobio40.6
  13. 13La UniónLos Ríos Region39.9
  14. 14San CarlosÑuble39.6
  15. 15Puerto MonttLos Lagos Region39.6
  16. 16Puente AltoSantiago Metropolitan38.6
  17. 17Puerto AysénAysén37.7
  18. 18CuranilahueBiobio37.4
  19. 19ChillánÑuble36.4
  20. 20QuillotaValparaiso36.1

+ 23 more cities, 34.6 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Hualpén since 20 May 2023 and Rengo since 9 May 2023.

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.