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Cities in Austria, 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 to23 Aug 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Austria for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 23 Aug 2023: Graz 9.7 µg/m³, Wolfsberg 9.0 µg/m³ and Klagenfurt am Wörthersee 8.8 µg/m³.

  1. 1GrazStyria9.7
  2. 2WolfsbergCarinthia9.0
  3. 3Klagenfurt am WörtherseeCarinthia8.8
  4. 4EisenstadtBurgenland8.4
  5. 5EnnsUpper Austria7.4
  6. 6AnsfeldenUpper Austria7.4
  7. 7TraunUpper Austria7.2
  8. 8LinzUpper Austria7.1
  9. 9SalzburgSalzburg6.8
  10. 10Attnang-PuchheimUpper Austria6.3
  11. 11ViennaVienna6.2
  12. 12VoitsbergStyria6.2
  13. 13Sankt ValentinLower Austria6.2
  14. 14TullnLower Austria6.1
  15. 15MistelbachLower Austria6.1
  16. 16WelsUpper Austria6.0
  17. 17WeizStyria6.0
  18. 18LeibnitzStyria6.0
  19. 19Hainburg an der DonauLower Austria6.0
  20. 20Groß-EnzersdorfLower Austria6.0

+ 10 more cities, 6.0 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Gänserndorf since 7 Aug 2023.

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.