SmogRank / History / City race

Cities in Spain, 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 to21 Nov 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Spain for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 21 Nov 2023: Ourense 19.2 µg/m³, La Línea de la Concepción 12.5 µg/m³ and San Roque 11.8 µg/m³.

  1. 1OurenseGalicia19.2
  2. 2La Línea de la ConcepciónAndalusia12.5
  3. 3San RoqueAndalusia11.8
  4. 4BurrianaValencia11.8
  5. 5ManlleuCatalonia11.4
  6. 6Lomo de AricoCanary Islands11.1
  7. 7CosladaMadrid10.8
  8. 8LleidaCatalonia10.6
  9. 9CartagenaMurcia10.4
  10. 10VigoGalicia10.3
  11. 11CuencaCastille-La Mancha10.3
  12. 12MurciaMurcia10.1
  13. 13Mollet del VallèsCatalonia9.9
  14. 14SevillaAndalusia9.8
  15. 15ValdemoroMadrid9.8
  16. 16CórdobaAndalusia9.5
  17. 17BailénAndalusia9.3
  18. 18CeeGalicia9.0
  19. 19Las Palmas de Gran CanariaCanary Islands8.9
  20. 20Granadilla de AbonaCanary Islands8.9

+ 84 more cities, 8.9 µg/m³ and below

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.