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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.

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The 30 days to12 May 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 12 May 2026: Modelu 29.4 µg/m³, Târgu Mureş 16.1 µg/m³ and Suceava 14.9 µg/m³.

  1. 1ModeluCălărași County29.4
  2. 2Târgu MureşMureș County16.1
  3. 3SuceavaSuceava14.9
  4. 4Baia MareMaramureş13.6
  5. 5Sighetu MarmaţieiMaramureş13.0
  6. 6RovinariGorj County13.0
  7. 7DejCluj County11.4
  8. 8BragadiruIlfov11.0
  9. 9PiteştiArges10.7
  10. 10Popeşti-LeordeniIlfov10.3
  11. 11CraiovaDolj10.2
  12. 12BufteaIlfov10.2
  13. 13Târgu JiuGorj County10.1
  14. 14IaşiIași County10.0
  15. 15TimişoaraTimiș County9.8
  16. 16VoluntariIlfov9.6
  17. 17JilavaIlfov9.6
  18. 18OtopeniIlfov9.3
  19. 19BucharestBucharest9.1
  20. 20HolbocaIași County9.0

+ 8 more cities, 9.0 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Baloteşti since 12 May 2026.

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.