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Cities in United States, 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 United States for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 12 May 2026: Laredo 17.0 µg/m³, Macon 15.0 µg/m³ and Mission 14.7 µg/m³.

  1. 1LaredoTexas17.0
  2. 2MaconGeorgia15.0
  3. 3MissionTexas14.7
  4. 4Port ArthurTexas14.1
  5. 5EdinburgTexas14.0
  6. 6Corpus ChristiTexas13.9
  7. 7Eagle PassTexas13.9
  8. 8AustinTexas13.6
  9. 9El PasoTexas13.4
  10. 10Port IsabelTexas13.1
  11. 11ValdostaGeorgia12.7
  12. 12Jurupa ValleyCalifornia12.7
  13. 13BrunswickGeorgia12.4
  14. 14Wake ForestNorth Carolina12.4
  15. 15HelotesTexas12.3
  16. 16San AntonioTexas12.2
  17. 17Lake CityFlorida11.8
  18. 18WindcrestTexas11.7
  19. 19ShreveportLouisiana11.5
  20. 20Wells BranchTexas11.5

+ 850 more cities, 11.4 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Rio Vista since 9 May 2026, Carson since 16 Apr 2026, Hawthorne since 16 Apr 2026 and 2 more cities.

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.