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Cities in Poland, 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 30 days to21 Jul 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 21 Jul 2024: Katowice 14.3 µg/m³, Radomsko 13.3 µg/m³ and Jastrzębie Zdrój 12.9 µg/m³.

  1. 1KatowiceSilesia14.3
  2. 2RadomskoŁódź Voivodeship13.3
  3. 3Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia12.9
  4. 4RacibórzSilesia12.3
  5. 5Bielsko-BialaSilesia11.8
  6. 6KielceŚwiętokrzyskie11.2
  7. 7KrakówLesser Poland11.1
  8. 8PrzemyślSubcarpathia10.9
  9. 9LublinLublin10.9
  10. 10ŁukówLublin10.8
  11. 11ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie10.8
  12. 12KaliszGreater Poland10.8
  13. 13ZamośćLublin10.7
  14. 14TarnówLesser Poland10.7
  15. 15PołaniecŚwiętokrzyskie10.5
  16. 16GdyniaPomerania10.5
  17. 17MielecSubcarpathia10.4
  18. 18NiskoSubcarpathia10.3
  19. 19RadomMazovia10.2
  20. 20SzczecinWest Pomerania10.2

+ 52 more cities, the next at 10.1 µg/m³

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Siedlce since 15 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 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.