SmogRank / History / City race
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 worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 8 Apr 2026: Târgu Mureş 32.8 µg/m³, Dej 23.5 µg/m³ and Suceava 22.7 µg/m³.
- 1Târgu MureşMureș County32.8
- 2DejCluj County23.5
- 3SuceavaSuceava22.7
- 4RovinariGorj County21.9
- 5Sighetu MarmaţieiMaramureş19.6
- 6IaşiIași County17.8
- 7Târgu JiuGorj County16.7
- 8HolbocaIași County16.7
- 9CraiovaDolj16.6
- 10BragadiruIlfov15.7
- 11BufteaIlfov15.4
- 12PiteştiArges15.3
- 13Baia MareMaramureş14.8
- 14JilavaIlfov14.6
- 15VoluntariIlfov14.5
- 16Piatra NeamţNeamț County14.0
- 17TimişoaraTimiș County13.9
- 18CalafatDolj13.8
- 19OtopeniIlfov13.7
- 20Popeşti-LeordeniIlfov13.6
+ 8 more cities, 13.6 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Modelu since 5 Mar 2026.
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.