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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.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to19 Oct 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in The Netherlands for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 19 Oct 2024: Maarssen 8.6 µg/m³, Breukelen 8.6 µg/m³ and The Hague 8.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1MaarssenUtrecht8.6
  2. 2BreukelenUtrecht8.6
  3. 3The HagueSouth Holland8.3
  4. 4LopikUtrecht7.8
  5. 5IJsselsteinUtrecht7.8
  6. 6UtrechtUtrecht7.7
  7. 7BredaNorth Brabant7.7
  8. 8TilburgNorth Brabant6.9
  9. 9RotterdamSouth Holland6.7
  10. 10NijmegenGelderland6.7
  11. 11WaalreNorth Brabant6.6
  12. 12EindhovenNorth Brabant6.6
  13. 13NoordwijkerhoutSouth Holland6.3
  14. 14LunterenGelderland6.3
  15. 15HillegomSouth Holland6.3
  16. 16GroningenGroningen6.3
  17. 17BarneveldGelderland6.3
  18. 18VenrayLimburg5.6
  19. 19MedemblikNorth Holland5.5
  20. 20HeerlenLimburg5.5

+ 2 more cities, the next at 5.5 µg/m³

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Zwanenburg since 24 Aug 2024, Zaanstad since 24 Aug 2024, Velserbroek since 24 Aug 2024 and 10 more cities.

30 days7 days
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 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.