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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.

The 30 days to14 May 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 14 May 2025: Otwock 15.4 µg/m³, Łask 14.9 µg/m³ and Jastrzębie Zdrój 14.2 µg/m³.

  1. 1OtwockMazovia15.4
  2. 2ŁaskŁódź Voivodeship14.9
  3. 3Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia14.2
  4. 4KaliszGreater Poland14.1
  5. 5GdyniaPomerania14.1
  6. 6RadomskoŁódź Voivodeship14.0
  7. 7GdańskPomerania13.2
  8. 8WrocławLower Silesia12.8
  9. 9ŁódźŁódź Voivodeship12.8
  10. 10RadomMazovia12.1
  11. 11ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie11.9
  12. 12PoznańGreater Poland11.8
  13. 13KatowiceSilesia11.7
  14. 14WłocławekKujawsko-Pomorskie11.1
  15. 15SzczecinWest Pomerania11.1
  16. 16StarachowiceŚwiętokrzyskie11.0
  17. 17DębicaSubcarpathia11.0
  18. 18ZamośćLublin10.8
  19. 19KłodzkoLower Silesia10.7
  20. 20Jelenia GóraLower Silesia10.7

+ 36 more cities, 10.4 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 8 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.