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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.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to27 Jun 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Italy for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 27 Jun 2023: San Pietro Vernotico 14.7 µg/m³, Naples 14.7 µg/m³ and Alessandria 14.5 µg/m³.

  1. 1San Pietro VernoticoApulia14.7
  2. 2NaplesCampania14.7
  3. 3AlessandriaPiedmont14.5
  4. 4CrescentinoPiedmont14.1
  5. 5BeneventoCampania13.1
  6. 6Falconara MarittimaThe Marches13.0
  7. 7TrentoTrentino-Alto Adige11.7
  8. 8RoveretoTrentino-Alto Adige11.7
  9. 9JesiThe Marches11.7
  10. 10ChiaravalleThe Marches10.9
  11. 11ModugnoApulia10.3
  12. 12LaivesTrentino-Alto Adige10.1
  13. 13BolzanoTrentino-Alto Adige10.1
  14. 14Porto Potenza PicenaThe Marches10.0
  15. 15Civitanova MarcheThe Marches10.0
  16. 16TurinPiedmont9.7
  17. 17PratoTuscany9.6
  18. 18PisaTuscany9.5
  19. 19CapannoriTuscany9.5
  20. 20SalernoCampania9.3

+ 8 more cities, the next at 9.1 µg/m³

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Viareggio since 27 Jun 2023, Pesaro since 4 Jun 2023, La Spezia since 20 May 2023 and Cairo Montenotte since 15 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 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.