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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.

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The 30 days to22 Sep 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Germany for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 22 Sep 2023: Mahlow 11.1 µg/m³, Delmenhorst 10.3 µg/m³ and Bremerhaven 10.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1MahlowBrandenburg11.1
  2. 2DelmenhorstLower Saxony10.3
  3. 3BremerhavenBremen10.3
  4. 4LemwerderLower Saxony10.3
  5. 5BerlinState of Berlin10.2
  6. 6WeidenBavaria10.0
  7. 7TeltowBrandenburg9.9
  8. 8PassauBavaria9.8
  9. 9OldenburgLower Saxony9.7
  10. 10NurembergBavaria9.6
  11. 11MunichBavaria9.6
  12. 12AugsburgBavaria9.6
  13. 13SchöneicheBrandenburg9.4
  14. 14NeuenhagenBrandenburg9.4
  15. 15LindauBavaria9.4
  16. 16Neu-UlmBavaria9.2
  17. 17GroßostheimBavaria9.2
  18. 18ElsenfeldBavaria9.2
  19. 19BurghausenBavaria9.2
  20. 20CoburgBavaria9.1

+ 40 more cities, 9.0 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Schwandorf in Bayern since 3 Aug 2023, Weißenfels since 25 Jul 2023, Magdeburg since 25 Jul 2023 and 5 more cities.

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 readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.