SmogRank / History / City race
Cities in Germany, 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 Germany for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 22 Feb 2024: Mahlow 12.4 µg/m³, Kiefersfelden 12.3 µg/m³ and Passau 12.2 µg/m³.
- 1MahlowBrandenburg12.4
- 2KiefersfeldenBavaria12.3
- 3PassauBavaria12.2
- 4IngolstadtBavaria12.1
- 5TeltowBrandenburg11.3
- 6BerlinState of Berlin11.1
- 7WeidenBavaria10.8
- 8WormsRheinland-Pfalz10.4
- 9DattelnNorth Rhine-Westphalia10.4
- 10HamburgHamburg10.3
- 11GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia10.1
- 12BottropNorth Rhine-Westphalia10.1
- 13BorkenNorth Rhine-Westphalia10.1
- 14Oettingen in BayernBavaria10.0
- 15LindauBavaria10.0
- 16OldenburgLower Saxony9.9
- 17MünsterNorth Rhine-Westphalia9.9
- 18Bernau bei BerlinBrandenburg9.9
- 19MannheimBaden-Wurttemberg9.8
- 20HalstenbekSchleswig-Holstein9.6
+ 192 more cities, the next at 9.5 µg/m³
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Großostheim since 27 Jan 2024, Elsenfeld since 27 Jan 2024 and Kelheim since 10 Jan 2024. Days missing from the source archive fall in this window, so fewer countries are counted.
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.