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Cities in Italy, 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 to24 Dec 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Italy for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 24 Dec 2023: Capannori 42.8 µg/m³, Alessandria 29.7 µg/m³ and Turin 28.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1CapannoriTuscany42.8
  2. 2AlessandriaPiedmont29.7
  3. 3TurinPiedmont28.3
  4. 4CrescentinoPiedmont26.4
  5. 5BeneventoCampania25.8
  6. 6ChiaravalleThe Marches22.5
  7. 7JesiThe Marches20.4
  8. 8NaplesCampania19.0
  9. 9Borgo ValsuganaTrentino-Alto Adige18.7
  10. 10Falconara MarittimaThe Marches18.2
  11. 11Ceglie MessapicaApulia17.5
  12. 12AnconaThe Marches16.6
  13. 13San Pietro VernoticoApulia15.8
  14. 14TrentoTrentino-Alto Adige15.4
  15. 15LaivesTrentino-Alto Adige15.2
  16. 16BolzanoTrentino-Alto Adige15.2
  17. 17RoveretoTrentino-Alto Adige13.9
  18. 18CasertaCampania12.8
  19. 19Cairo MontenotteLiguria11.5
  20. 20La SpeziaLiguria11.2

+ 3 more cities, the next at 10.8 µg/m³

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Pesaro since 15 Dec 2023, Prato since 6 Nov 2023, Pisa since 6 Nov 2023 and 8 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 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.