SmogRank / History / City race
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 worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 14 Jan 2025: Dej 45.5 µg/m³, Codlea 41.4 µg/m³ and Bragadiru 28.9 µg/m³.
- 1DejCluj County45.5
- 2CodleaBrașov County41.4
- 3BragadiruIlfov28.9
- 4Cluj-NapocaCluj County26.5
- 5CraiovaDolj23.4
- 6BucharestBucharest20.1
- 7HolbocaIași County18.2
- 8BaloteştiIlfov17.9
- 9JilavaIlfov16.4
- 10IaşiIași County15.9
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.