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Cities in Spain, 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 to10 Aug 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Spain for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 10 Aug 2025: Ourense 18.4 µg/m³, Fuenlabrada 17.2 µg/m³ and Santa Lucía 17.1 µg/m³.

  1. 1OurenseGalicia18.4
  2. 2FuenlabradaMadrid17.2
  3. 3Santa LucíaCanary Islands17.1
  4. 4CandelariaCanary Islands16.0
  5. 5ArrecifeCanary Islands14.3
  6. 6ManlleuCatalonia14.0
  7. 7ValdemoroMadrid13.5
  8. 8Prado del ReyAndalusia12.9
  9. 9Mollet del VallèsCatalonia12.9
  10. 10BurgosCastille and León12.9
  11. 11CosladaMadrid12.7
  12. 12PalenciaCastille and León12.4
  13. 13LorcaMurcia12.2
  14. 14ValenciaValencia12.1
  15. 15ZumarragaBasque Country12.0
  16. 16GranadaAndalusia11.7
  17. 17LogroñoLa Rioja11.6
  18. 18BailénAndalusia11.4
  19. 19MurciaMurcia11.3
  20. 20Alcalá de HenaresMadrid11.2

+ 80 more cities, 11.1 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Sevilla since 9 Aug 2025, Cártama since 9 Aug 2025, Campillos since 9 Aug 2025 and 4 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.