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 13 Aug 2024: Tilburg 11.5 µg/m³, Waalre 10.5 µg/m³ and Eindhoven 10.5 µg/m³.
- 1TilburgNorth Brabant11.5
- 2WaalreNorth Brabant10.5
- 3EindhovenNorth Brabant10.5
- 4NijmegenGelderland9.2
- 5BredaNorth Brabant9.1
- 6VenloLimburg8.7
- 7MaarssenUtrecht8.7
- 8BreukelenUtrecht8.7
- 9Velsen-ZuidNorth Holland8.5
- 10SchiedamSouth Holland8.5
- 11's-GravenzandeSouth Holland8.2
- 12LopikUtrecht8.1
- 13IJsselsteinUtrecht8.1
- 14SpijkenisseSouth Holland7.5
- 15RotterdamSouth Holland7.3
- 16RidderkerkSouth Holland7.2
- 17AmsterdamNorth Holland7.2
- 18MaassluisSouth Holland7.1
- 19HeerlenLimburg7.1
- 20ZwanenburgNorth Holland7.0
+ 16 more cities, 7.0 µg/m³ and below
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.