SmogRank / History / City race
Cities in Italy, 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 Italy for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 28 May 2023: Benevento 19.3 µg/m³, Pesaro 15.3 µg/m³ and Modugno 12.5 µg/m³.
- 1BeneventoCampania19.3
- 2PesaroThe Marches15.3
- 3ModugnoApulia12.5
- 4AlessandriaPiedmont12.3
- 5ChiaravalleThe Marches11.9
- 6San Pietro VernoticoApulia11.8
- 7JesiThe Marches11.7
- 8CrescentinoPiedmont11.3
- 9NaplesCampania10.8
- 10Falconara MarittimaThe Marches10.8
- 11RoveretoTrentino-Alto Adige8.9
- 12TrentoTrentino-Alto Adige8.8
- 13Ceglie MessapicaApulia8.6
- 14FlorenceTuscany8.3
- 15CapannoriTuscany8.2
- 16TurinPiedmont7.9
- 17SalernoCampania7.8
- 18LivornoTuscany7.6
- 19LaivesTrentino-Alto Adige7.6
- 20BolzanoTrentino-Alto Adige7.6
+ 5 more cities, the next at 7.5 µg/m³
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: La Spezia since 20 May 2023, Cairo Montenotte since 15 May 2023, Ancona since 15 Apr 2023 and 13 more cities.
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 reader for China's network. Turkey's network doesn't answer requests from outside the country, so we can't read it. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.