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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 to16 Sep 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 16 Sep 2024: Przemyśl 16.7 µg/m³, Grajewo 16.4 µg/m³ and Katowice 16.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1PrzemyślSubcarpathia16.7
  2. 2GrajewoPodlasie16.4
  3. 3KatowiceSilesia16.3
  4. 4LublinLublin16.2
  5. 5AugustówPodlasie16.1
  6. 6ZamośćLublin15.5
  7. 7Zielona GóraLubusz15.4
  8. 8PołaniecŚwiętokrzyskie15.3
  9. 9Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia15.3
  10. 10MielecSubcarpathia15.0
  11. 11ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie15.0
  12. 12RacibórzSilesia15.0
  13. 13ŁukówLublin14.9
  14. 14PruszkówMazovia14.5
  15. 15KaliszGreater Poland14.3
  16. 16BiałystokPodlasie14.2
  17. 17LegionowoMazovia14.1
  18. 18OlsztynWarmia-Masuria14.0
  19. 19Konstancin-JeziornaMazovia14.0
  20. 20KielceŚwiętokrzyskie14.0

+ 52 more cities, 14.0 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.

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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 readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.