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Cities in Spain, 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 Mar 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Spain for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 15 Mar 2025: Ourense 18.2 µg/m³, Mollet del Vallès 17.8 µg/m³ and Coslada 15.5 µg/m³.

  1. 1OurenseGalicia18.2
  2. 2Mollet del VallèsCatalonia17.8
  3. 3CosladaMadrid15.5
  4. 4ValenciaValencia15.4
  5. 5MurciaMurcia15.3
  6. 6Molina de SeguraMurcia14.4
  7. 7ManlleuCatalonia14.0
  8. 8LleidaCatalonia13.9
  9. 9AlcantarillaMurcia12.7
  10. 10SamaAsturias12.7
  11. 11BarcelonaCatalonia12.4
  12. 12VigoGalicia12.3
  13. 13OviedoAsturias12.2
  14. 14GijónAsturias12.2
  15. 15CartagenaMurcia12.1
  16. 16El PlanMurcia11.9
  17. 17Barrio de PeralMurcia11.9
  18. 18LorcaMurcia10.2
  19. 19OriaBasque Country10.1
  20. 20GironaCatalonia10.1

+ 60 more cities, 9.9 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Algeciras since 9 Mar 2025, Utiel since 3 Mar 2025, Buñol since 3 Mar 2025 and 20 more cities.

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.