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Cities in Mexico, 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 Mexico for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 26 Aug 2023: Morelia 102.0 µg/m³, Mexicali 34.0 µg/m³ and Xonacatlán 25.5 µg/m³.
- 1MoreliaMichoacán102.0
- 2MexicaliBaja California34.0
- 3XonacatlánMéxico25.5
- 4San Francisco TlalcilalcalpanMéxico22.8
- 5Santiaguito TlalcilalcalliMéxico22.8
- 6Ciudad ApodacaNuevo León21.5
- 7TolucaMéxico20.8
- 8Victoria de DurangoDurango20.6
- 9Ciudad JuárezChihuahua20.4
- 10San Antonio la IslaMéxico19.3
- 11San Salvador TizatlalliMéxico19.3
- 12Santa CatarinaNuevo León18.0
- 13Ciudad Benito JuárezNuevo León17.1
- 14Atotonilco de TulaHidalgo16.3
- 15CelayaGuanajuato16.2
- 16Naucalpan de JuárezMéxico15.7
- 17HuichapanHidalgo14.9
- 18MonterreyNuevo León14.9
- 19Tepeji del Río de OcampoHidalgo14.5
- 20Jardines de la SillaNuevo León14.1
+ 17 more cities, the next at 13.0 µg/m³
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: San Juan del Río since 20 Aug 2023, Salamanca since 20 Aug 2023, García since 18 Aug 2023 and 3 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.