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Cities in Mexico, 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 Mexico for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 17 Aug 2024: Heroica Matamoros 9.3 µg/m³, San Juan del Río 9.1 µg/m³ and Nogales 8.0 µg/m³.
- 1Heroica MatamorosTamaulipas9.3
- 2San Juan del RíoQuerétaro9.1
- 3NogalesSonora8.0
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Aguascalientes since 3 Aug 2024, San Luis de la Paz since 29 Jun 2024, Celaya since 29 Jun 2024 and 7 more cities.
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.