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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 19 Sep 2024: Santa María 76.8 µg/m³, Santa Anita - Los Ficus 31.0 µg/m³ and Tinyahuarco 29.6 µg/m³.
- 1Santa MaríaLima region76.8
- 2Santa Anita - Los FicusLima region31.0
- 3TinyahuarcoPasco29.6
- 4San Francisco De BorjaLima region29.4
- 5Jacobo HunterArequipa26.9
- 6Horacio Zeballos GamezArequipa26.9
- 7Villa Poeta José Gálvez BarrenecheaLima region26.3
- 8Tupac AmaruIca21.7
- 9San ClementeIca21.7
- 10YauriCuzco Department21.4
- 11ChocopeLa Libertad18.2
- 12AscopeLa Libertad16.2
- 13ChimboteAncash13.3
- 14La HuacaPiura10.9
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Lima since 17 Sep 2024, Callao since 6 Sep 2024 and Yanacancha since 26 Jul 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 reader for China's network. Turkey's network doesn't answer requests from outside the country, so we can't read it. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.