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Cities, 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 to22 Sep 2023 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 22 Sep 2023: Fort McMurray 72.4 µg/m³, Puerto Varas 64.9 µg/m³ and Osorno 63.6 µg/m³.

  1. 1Fort McMurrayCanada72.4
  2. 2Puerto VarasChile64.9
  3. 3OsornoChile63.6
  4. 4DushanbeTajikistan60.6
  5. 5Grande PrairieCanada59.8
  6. 6EdmontonCanada54.2
  7. 7DhakaBangladesh53.8
  8. 8CoyhaiqueChile53.0
  9. 9PeshawarPakistan52.1
  10. 10NacimientoChile51.3
  11. 11Prince AlbertCanada51.2
  12. 12LahorePakistan49.8
  13. 13Tha BoThailand48.8
  14. 14Grand CentreCanada48.2
  15. 15Fort St. JohnCanada47.6
  16. 16JakartaIndonesia46.2
  17. 17SaskatoonCanada45.7
  18. 18ReginaCanada45.5
  19. 19Fort SaskatchewanCanada44.3
  20. 20La UniónChile44.2

+ 2,184 more cities, 42.7 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Alexandria since 22 Sep 2023, Ash Shīḩānīyah since 4 Sep 2023, Linares since 4 Sep 2023 and 3 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.