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Cities in Chile, 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 Chile for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 23 Jan 2024: Santiago 23.0 µg/m³, Puente Alto 22.6 µg/m³ and Puchuncaví 22.4 µg/m³.
- 1SantiagoSantiago Metropolitan23.0
- 2Puente AltoSantiago Metropolitan22.6
- 3PuchuncavíValparaiso22.4
- 4HualpénBiobio22.1
- 5TalaganteSantiago Metropolitan21.2
- 6QuinteroValparaiso21.0
- 7RengoO'Higgins Region20.8
- 8TocopillaAntofagasta20.6
- 9AricaArica y Parinacota Region20.6
- 10Viña del MarValparaiso19.8
- 11ToméBiobio19.5
- 12TalcahuanoBiobio19.3
- 13RancaguaO'Higgins Region19.3
- 14NacimientoBiobio19.1
- 15San Pedro de la PazBiobio19.1
- 16QuillotaValparaiso18.8
- 17HualquiBiobio18.8
- 18San CarlosÑuble18.7
- 19CoronelBiobio18.7
- 20CuricóMaule Region17.9
+ 25 more cities, the next at 17.9 µg/m³
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.