SmogRank / History / City race
Cities in The Netherlands, 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 The Netherlands for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 15 May 2024: Maarssen 11.7 µg/m³, Breukelen 11.7 µg/m³ and Tilburg 11.1 µg/m³.
- 1MaarssenUtrecht11.7
- 2BreukelenUtrecht11.7
- 3TilburgNorth Brabant11.1
- 4LopikUtrecht10.9
- 5IJsselsteinUtrecht10.9
- 6Velsen-ZuidNorth Holland10.2
- 7NijmegenGelderland9.9
- 8's-GravenzandeSouth Holland9.6
- 9AmsterdamNorth Holland9.4
- 10VenrayLimburg9.3
- 11WaalreNorth Brabant9.0
- 12RidderkerkSouth Holland9.0
- 13EindhovenNorth Brabant9.0
- 14BadhoevedorpNorth Holland8.9
- 15SpijkenisseSouth Holland8.8
- 16MaassluisSouth Holland8.8
- 17BredaNorth Brabant8.7
- 18ZaanstadNorth Holland8.5
- 19RotterdamSouth Holland8.5
- 20ZwanenburgNorth Holland8.4
+ 16 more cities, 8.4 µg/m³ and below
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 readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.