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Cities in Romania, 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 30 days to15 Nov 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 15 Nov 2024: Dej 42.8 µg/m³, Codlea 31.8 µg/m³ and Bragadiru 29.7 µg/m³.

  1. 1DejCluj County42.8
  2. 2CodleaBrașov County31.8
  3. 3BragadiruIlfov29.7
  4. 4IaşiIași County26.4
  5. 5Cluj-NapocaCluj County26.0
  6. 6HolbocaIași County25.6
  7. 7BucharestBucharest23.3
  8. 8CraiovaDolj17.1
  9. 9BaloteştiIlfov16.4
  10. 10JilavaIlfov15.4

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.