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Cities in Poland, 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.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to11 May 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 11 May 2025: Otwock 15.7 µg/m³, Gdynia 15.6 µg/m³ and Łask 15.4 µg/m³.

  1. 1OtwockMazovia15.7
  2. 2GdyniaPomerania15.6
  3. 3ŁaskŁódź Voivodeship15.4
  4. 4KaliszGreater Poland14.8
  5. 5GdańskPomerania14.7
  6. 6Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia14.1
  7. 7ŁódźŁódź Voivodeship13.9
  8. 8RadomskoŁódź Voivodeship13.7
  9. 9WrocławLower Silesia13.1
  10. 10ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie13.1
  11. 11WłocławekKujawsko-Pomorskie13.0
  12. 12PoznańGreater Poland13.0
  13. 13RadomMazovia12.4
  14. 14KatowiceSilesia12.2
  15. 15StarachowiceŚwiętokrzyskie11.6
  16. 16SzczecinWest Pomerania11.6
  17. 17ŚwiecieKujawsko-Pomorskie11.6
  18. 18DębicaSubcarpathia11.5
  19. 19KołobrzegWest Pomerania11.4
  20. 20Jelenia GóraLower Silesia11.4

+ 36 more cities, 11.1 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Wschowa since 9 May 2025, Skarżysko-Kamienna since 7 May 2025, Żywiec since 6 May 2025 and 9 more cities.

30 days7 days
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.