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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 to13 Jul 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 13 Jul 2025: Calafat 11.0 µg/m³, Bragadiru 10.8 µg/m³ and Jilava 9.5 µg/m³.

  1. 1CalafatDolj11.0
  2. 2BragadiruIlfov10.8
  3. 3JilavaIlfov9.5
  4. 4BucharestBucharest9.2
  5. 5IaşiIași County7.9
  6. 6DejCluj County7.9
  7. 7HolbocaIași County7.8
  8. 8Cluj-NapocaCluj County7.8
  9. 9CraiovaDolj7.7
  10. 10BaloteştiIlfov6.9

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Codlea since 18 Jun 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.