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Cities in Spain, 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 to16 Jul 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Spain for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 16 Jul 2024: Ourense 14.4 µg/m³, Vigo 14.2 µg/m³ and Bailén 12.6 µg/m³.

  1. 1OurenseGalicia14.4
  2. 2VigoGalicia14.2
  3. 3BailénAndalusia12.6
  4. 4MurciaMurcia11.7
  5. 5MaspalomasCanary Islands11.5
  6. 6Torrejón de ArdozMadrid11.3
  7. 7ValenciaValencia11.2
  8. 8San IsidroCanary Islands11.1
  9. 9ToledoCastille-La Mancha10.6
  10. 10CuencaCastille-La Mancha10.6
  11. 11JaénAndalusia10.5
  12. 12El PlanMurcia10.4
  13. 13Barrio de PeralMurcia10.4
  14. 14Collado-VillalbaMadrid10.3
  15. 15Molina de SeguraMurcia10.2
  16. 16Mollet del VallèsCatalonia10.1
  17. 17CartagenaMurcia10.0
  18. 18LorcaMurcia9.8
  19. 19BeasainBasque Country9.8
  20. 20ManlleuCatalonia9.7

+ 98 more cities, 9.7 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Torrent since 14 Jul 2024, Algeciras since 9 Jul 2024, Palma since 9 Jun 2024 and Melilla since 7 Jun 2024.

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.