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 21 Jul 2024: Waalre 10.0 µg/m³, Eindhoven 10.0 µg/m³ and Tilburg 9.2 µg/m³.
- 1WaalreNorth Brabant10.0
- 2EindhovenNorth Brabant10.0
- 3TilburgNorth Brabant9.2
- 4MaarssenUtrecht9.1
- 5BreukelenUtrecht9.1
- 6NijmegenGelderland8.7
- 7Velsen-ZuidNorth Holland8.1
- 8SpijkenisseSouth Holland7.4
- 9's-GravenzandeSouth Holland7.4
- 10LopikUtrecht7.4
- 11IJsselsteinUtrecht7.4
- 12BredaNorth Brabant7.1
- 13VenloLimburg7.0
- 14AmsterdamNorth Holland6.9
- 15BadhoevedorpNorth Holland6.8
- 16ZwanenburgNorth Holland6.7
- 17VenrayLimburg6.7
- 18VelserbroekNorth Holland6.7
- 19RidderkerkSouth Holland6.6
- 20RotterdamSouth Holland6.5
+ 15 more cities, the next at 6.3 µg/m³
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Schiedam since 12 Jun 2024.
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.