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Cities in Poland, 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 30 days to19 Feb 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 19 Feb 2024: Działdowo 31.0 µg/m³, Opole 27.5 µg/m³ and Dębica 26.2 µg/m³.

  1. 1DziałdowoWarmia-Masuria31.0
  2. 2OpoleOpole Voivodeship27.5
  3. 3DębicaSubcarpathia26.2
  4. 4Skarżysko-KamiennaŚwiętokrzyskie24.5
  5. 5ZgierzŁódź Voivodeship24.4
  6. 6Kudowa-ZdrójLower Silesia23.4
  7. 7ChojnówLower Silesia22.5
  8. 8WłocławekKujawsko-Pomorskie22.3
  9. 9KrakówLesser Poland21.8
  10. 10KatowiceSilesia20.8
  11. 11Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia20.6
  12. 12NiskoSubcarpathia20.5
  13. 13AugustówPodlasie20.4
  14. 14Czechowice-DziedziceSilesia20.4
  15. 15PrzemyślSubcarpathia20.2
  16. 16ŻywiecSilesia20.1
  17. 17KościanGreater Poland20.0
  18. 18RacibórzSilesia19.9
  19. 19KutnoŁódź Voivodeship19.1
  20. 20KłodzkoLower Silesia19.0

+ 58 more cities, 18.7 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Nysa since 9 Feb 2024. Days missing from the source archive fall in this window, so fewer countries are counted.

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.