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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.

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The 30 days to21 Apr 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Chile for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 21 Apr 2024: Coyhaique 51.4 µg/m³, Osorno 33.3 µg/m³ and Puerto Varas 33.2 µg/m³.

  1. 1CoyhaiqueAysén51.4
  2. 2OsornoLos Lagos Region33.3
  3. 3Puerto VarasLos Lagos Region33.2
  4. 4NacimientoBiobio32.2
  5. 5TemucoAraucania30.3
  6. 6Puerto AysénAysén30.3
  7. 7HualquiBiobio29.3
  8. 8HualpénBiobio29.0
  9. 9Puente AltoSantiago Metropolitan28.5
  10. 10CoronelBiobio28.3
  11. 11Puerto MonttLos Lagos Region28.2
  12. 12La UniónLos Ríos Region27.4
  13. 13SantiagoSantiago Metropolitan27.1
  14. 14San CarlosÑuble27.1
  15. 15LajaBiobio26.5
  16. 16CuranilahueBiobio26.5
  17. 17RancaguaO'Higgins Region25.3
  18. 18ChillánÑuble25.1
  19. 19PuchuncavíValparaiso24.6
  20. 20CuricóMaule Region24.1

+ 24 more cities, 24.0 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Quillota since 4 Apr 2024.

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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.