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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.

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The 30 days to9 May 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in Germany for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 9 May 2026: Mahlow 13.3 µg/m³, Berlin 11.7 µg/m³ and Starnberg 11.4 µg/m³.

  1. 1MahlowBrandenburg13.3
  2. 2BerlinState of Berlin11.7
  3. 3StarnbergBavaria11.4
  4. 4Herrsching am AmmerseeBavaria11.4
  5. 5UnnaNorth Rhine-Westphalia10.8
  6. 6NeubrandenburgMecklenburg-Vorpommern10.7
  7. 7DortmundNorth Rhine-Westphalia10.5
  8. 8GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia10.4
  9. 9BernburgSaxony-Anhalt10.4
  10. 10FriesoytheLower Saxony10.0
  11. 11BöselLower Saxony10.0
  12. 12RostockMecklenburg-Vorpommern9.8
  13. 13OldenburgLower Saxony9.8
  14. 14KiefersfeldenBavaria9.8
  15. 15AltenburgThuringia9.7
  16. 16GreizThuringia9.6
  17. 17OberhausenNorth Rhine-Westphalia9.5
  18. 18Halle (Saale)Saxony-Anhalt9.5
  19. 19KrefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia9.4
  20. 20GeraThuringia9.4

+ 234 more cities, 9.4 µg/m³ and below

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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.