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Cities in Finland, 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 to14 Apr 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Finland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 14 Apr 2025: Laaksolahti 10.8 µg/m³, Myyrmäki 10.8 µg/m³ and Vantaa 8.5 µg/m³.

  1. 1LaaksolahtiUusimaa10.8
  2. 2MyyrmäkiUusimaa10.8
  3. 3VantaaUusimaa8.5
  4. 4LahtiPaijat-Hame8.2
  5. 5JyväskyläCentral Finland7.7
  6. 6LappeenrantaSouth Karelia7.5
  7. 7KuopioNorth Savo7.4
  8. 8HelsinkiUusimaa7.4
  9. 9LohjaUusimaa6.9
  10. 10KallahtiUusimaa6.9
  11. 11PoriSatakunta6.5
  12. 12TamperePirkanmaa4.9
  13. 13KlaukkalaUusimaa4.9
  14. 14HämeenkyläUusimaa4.9
  15. 15OuluNorth Ostrobothnia4.4

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.