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Cities in The Netherlands, 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 to14 Oct 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in The Netherlands for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 14 Oct 2025: Haarlem 10.3 µg/m³, Schiedam 9.4 µg/m³ and Breda 8.2 µg/m³.

  1. 1HaarlemNorth Holland10.3
  2. 2SchiedamSouth Holland9.4
  3. 3BredaNorth Brabant8.2
  4. 4WaalreNorth Brabant8.1
  5. 5NijmegenGelderland8.1
  6. 6EindhovenNorth Brabant8.1
  7. 7VenloLimburg8.0
  8. 8The HagueSouth Holland7.9
  9. 9LunterenGelderland7.9
  10. 10BarneveldGelderland7.9
  11. 11RotterdamSouth Holland7.8
  12. 12BadhoevedorpNorth Holland7.7
  13. 13LopikUtrecht7.6
  14. 14IJsselsteinUtrecht7.6
  15. 15UtrechtUtrecht7.4
  16. 16VenrayLimburg7.3
  17. 17Velsen-ZuidNorth Holland7.3
  18. 18MaarssenUtrecht7.0
  19. 19BreukelenUtrecht7.0
  20. 20NoordwijkerhoutSouth Holland6.9

+ 13 more cities, 6.9 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Wormer since 13 Oct 2025, Purmerend since 13 Oct 2025, Ridderkerk since 9 Oct 2025 and 's-Gravenzande since 6 Oct 2025.

30 days7 days
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.