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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.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to8 Sep 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 8 Sep 2025: Kalisz 13.7 µg/m³, Jastrzębie Zdrój 13.0 µg/m³ and Nisko 12.6 µg/m³.

  1. 1KaliszGreater Poland13.7
  2. 2Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia13.0
  3. 3NiskoSubcarpathia12.6
  4. 4JarosławSubcarpathia12.3
  5. 5ZamośćLublin12.2
  6. 6ŁaskŁódź Voivodeship12.0
  7. 7WrocławLower Silesia11.9
  8. 8Bielsko-BialaSilesia11.9
  9. 9RadomskoŁódź Voivodeship11.4
  10. 10KutnoŁódź Voivodeship11.4
  11. 11PrzemyślSubcarpathia11.3
  12. 12GdyniaPomerania11.2
  13. 13OtwockMazovia11.1
  14. 14ŁódźŁódź Voivodeship11.0
  15. 15RadomMazovia10.7
  16. 16ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie10.7
  17. 17Zielona GóraLubusz10.3
  18. 18PoznańGreater Poland10.3
  19. 19KrakówLesser Poland10.3
  20. 20MielecSubcarpathia10.1

+ 45 more cities, 10.1 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Augustów since 16 Aug 2025.

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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 readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.