SmogRank / History / City race
Cities in Germany, 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 Germany for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 26 Aug 2023: Weiden 10.2 µg/m³, Kempten (Allgäu) 9.6 µg/m³ and Mahlow 9.4 µg/m³.
- 1WeidenBavaria10.2
- 2Kempten (Allgäu)Bavaria9.6
- 3MahlowBrandenburg9.4
- 4NurembergBavaria9.1
- 5PassauBavaria8.9
- 6Neu-UlmBavaria8.9
- 7GroßostheimBavaria8.9
- 8ElsenfeldBavaria8.9
- 9LindauBavaria8.8
- 10BurghausenBavaria8.7
- 11CoburgBavaria8.4
- 12MunichBavaria8.3
- 13BerlinState of Berlin8.3
- 14TeltowBrandenburg8.2
- 15AugsburgBavaria8.2
- 16Oettingen in BayernBavaria8.1
- 17KiefersfeldenBavaria7.9
- 18BambergBavaria7.9
- 19Trostberg an der AlzBavaria7.7
- 20TraunreutBavaria7.7
+ 38 more cities, the next at 7.7 µg/m³
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Kelheim since 24 Aug 2023, Neustadt an der Donau since 11 Aug 2023, Schwandorf in Bayern since 3 Aug 2023 and 22 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.