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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 Mar 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 15 Mar 2025: Dej 49.4 µg/m³, Calafat 41.3 µg/m³ and Codlea 38.6 µg/m³.

  1. 1DejCluj County49.4
  2. 2CalafatDolj41.3
  3. 3CodleaBrașov County38.6
  4. 4JilavaIlfov34.0
  5. 5BragadiruIlfov33.0
  6. 6Cluj-NapocaCluj County29.6
  7. 7BucharestBucharest27.3
  8. 8IaşiIași County24.9
  9. 9CraiovaDolj24.0

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Holboca since 13 Mar 2025 and Baloteşti since 18 Feb 2025.

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.