SmogRank / History / City race

Cities, 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.

CountriesCities
The 7 days to1 Jul 2024 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 1 Jul 2024: Santa María 126.7 µg/m³, San Carlos 93.3 µg/m³ and Fairbanks 85.2 µg/m³.

  1. 1Santa MaríaPeru126.7
  2. 2San CarlosChile93.3
  3. 3FairbanksUnited States85.2
  4. 4VillarricaChile85.0
  5. 5NacimientoChile83.4
  6. 6CoyhaiqueChile81.9
  7. 7BadgerUnited States80.0
  8. 8RancaguaChile74.4
  9. 9ChillánChile70.8
  10. 10OsornoChile70.1
  11. 11Puerto VarasChile67.0
  12. 12CuranilahueChile65.9
  13. 13TemucoChile65.0
  14. 14CuricóChile63.1
  15. 15LimaPeru62.0
  16. 16La UniónChile60.8
  17. 17TalcaChile60.2
  18. 18TalaganteChile58.7
  19. 19Santa Anita - Los FicusPeru58.5
  20. 20SantiagoChile57.0

+ 2,506 more cities, 55.1 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: San Pietro Vernotico since 1 Jul 2024, Hualpén since 28 Jun 2024, Rengo since 20 Jun 2024 and 5 more cities.

30 days7 days
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.