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Cities in Peru, 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 Peru for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 22 Jul 2024: Santa María 88.8 µg/m³, Santa Anita - Los Ficus 45.3 µg/m³ and Lima 44.8 µg/m³.
- 1Santa MaríaLima region88.8
- 2Santa Anita - Los FicusLima region45.3
- 3LimaLima Province44.8
- 4San Francisco De BorjaLima region34.2
- 5CallaoCallao29.9
- 6Jacobo HunterArequipa25.4
- 7Horacio Zeballos GamezArequipa25.4
- 8YauriCuzco Department20.9
- 9Villa Poeta José Gálvez BarrenecheaLima region20.9
- 10ChocopeLa Libertad19.3
- 11AscopeLa Libertad18.8
- 12TinyahuarcoPasco17.9
- 13ChimboteAncash16.5
- 14La HuacaPiura10.7
- 15YanacanchaPasco9.7
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.