SmogRank / History / City race
Cities in Germany, 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 worst cities in Germany for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 12 Aug 2025: Mahlow 10.5 µg/m³, Berlin 9.3 µg/m³ and Neuwied 9.1 µg/m³.
- 1MahlowBrandenburg10.5
- 2BerlinState of Berlin9.3
- 3NeuwiedRheinland-Pfalz9.1
- 4SpeyerRheinland-Pfalz9.0
- 5DortmundNorth Rhine-Westphalia8.9
- 6GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia8.8
- 7Ludwigshafen am RheinRheinland-Pfalz8.7
- 8EssenNorth Rhine-Westphalia8.6
- 9NurembergBavaria8.5
- 10HagenNorth Rhine-Westphalia8.5
- 11Bad KreuznachRheinland-Pfalz8.5
- 12Oettingen in BayernBavaria8.4
- 13IngolstadtBavaria8.4
- 14UnnaNorth Rhine-Westphalia8.3
- 15MunichBavaria8.3
- 16Trostberg an der AlzBavaria8.2
- 17TraunreutBavaria8.2
- 18OberhausenNorth Rhine-Westphalia8.2
- 19Neustadt an der DonauBavaria8.2
- 20KelheimBavaria8.2
+ 232 more cities, 8.1 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Aschaffenburg since 5 Aug 2025 and Kaiserslautern since 17 Jun 2025.
Cities counted each 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.