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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.
The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 13 Sep 2024: Przemyśl 17.4 µg/m³, Katowice 17.1 µg/m³ and Lublin 16.3 µg/m³.
- 1PrzemyślSubcarpathia17.4
- 2KatowiceSilesia17.1
- 3LublinLublin16.3
- 4Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia15.8
- 5RadomskoŁódź Voivodeship15.7
- 6ZamośćLublin15.6
- 7Zielona GóraLubusz15.5
- 8RacibórzSilesia15.5
- 9MielecSubcarpathia15.4
- 10PołaniecŚwiętokrzyskie15.3
- 11ŁukówLublin14.9
- 12KielceŚwiętokrzyskie14.9
- 13ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie14.9
- 14KrakówLesser Poland14.8
- 15GrajewoPodlasie14.7
- 16KaliszGreater Poland14.7
- 17AugustówPodlasie14.4
- 18Bielsko-BialaSilesia14.4
- 19SzczecinWest Pomerania14.2
- 20NiskoSubcarpathia14.1
+ 51 more cities, 14.1 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Wodzisław Śląski since 7 Aug 2024 and Cieszyn since 7 Aug 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 readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.