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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.

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The 30 days to16 Jun 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 16 Jun 2025: Kalisz 13.6 µg/m³, Łódź 13.4 µg/m³ and Łask 13.4 µg/m³.

  1. 1KaliszGreater Poland13.6
  2. 2ŁódźŁódź Voivodeship13.4
  3. 3ŁaskŁódź Voivodeship13.4
  4. 4OtwockMazovia12.9
  5. 5AugustówPodlasie12.2
  6. 6SiedlceMazovia12.0
  7. 7WrocławLower Silesia11.8
  8. 8WłocławekKujawsko-Pomorskie11.8
  9. 9Bielsko-BialaSilesia11.6
  10. 10RadomskoŁódź Voivodeship11.5
  11. 11Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia11.4
  12. 12ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie11.3
  13. 13GdyniaPomerania11.0
  14. 14PoznańGreater Poland10.9
  15. 15KatowiceSilesia10.7
  16. 16RadomMazovia10.5
  17. 17PruszkówMazovia10.4
  18. 18KrotoszynGreater Poland10.0
  19. 19Tomaszów LubelskiLublin9.9
  20. 20KolbuszowaSubcarpathia9.8

+ 53 more cities, 9.7 µg/m³ and below

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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 reader for China's network. Turkey's network doesn't answer requests from outside the country, so we can't read it. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.