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Cities in Chile, 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 Chile for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 11 May 2026: Osorno 55.0 µg/m³, Coyhaique 52.0 µg/m³ and Puerto Varas 50.2 µg/m³.
- 1OsornoLos Lagos Region55.0
- 2CoyhaiqueAysén52.0
- 3Puerto VarasLos Lagos Region50.2
- 4NacimientoBiobio48.2
- 5LajaBiobio47.2
- 6HualquiBiobio44.2
- 7CuranilahueBiobio44.1
- 8HualpénBiobio42.1
- 9VillarricaAraucania40.9
- 10Puerto MonttLos Lagos Region40.8
- 11ValdiviaLos Ríos Region39.1
- 12La UniónLos Ríos Region38.4
- 13TemucoAraucania37.7
- 14LinaresMaule Region36.3
- 15CuricóMaule Region35.2
- 16San CarlosÑuble34.8
- 17CoronelBiobio34.8
- 18Puerto AysénAysén33.9
- 19Los ÁngelesBiobio33.9
- 20ChillánÑuble33.8
+ 27 more cities, 32.1 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Copiapó since 29 Apr 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.