SmogRank / History / City race
Cities in France, 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 France for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 8 Jul 2026: Nice 12.4 µg/m³, Cannes 11.5 µg/m³ and Dunkirk 10.2 µg/m³.
- 1NiceProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur12.4
- 2CannesProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur11.5
- 3DunkirkHauts-de-France10.2
- 4MarignaneProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur10.0
- 5StrasbourgGrand Est9.8
- 6MarseilleProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur9.8
- 7BordeauxNew Aquitaine9.5
- 8RoubaixHauts-de-France9.3
- 9ReimsGrand Est9.3
- 10NancyGrand Est9.3
- 11ArlesProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur9.2
- 12Romans-sur-IsèreAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes9.1
- 13LormontNew Aquitaine9.1
- 14PoitiersNew Aquitaine8.9
- 15ParisÎle-de-France8.9
- 16DenainHauts-de-France8.9
- 17Salon-de-ProvenceProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur8.8
- 18Boulogne-sur-MerHauts-de-France8.8
- 19AvignonProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur8.7
- 20MetzGrand Est8.6
+ 56 more cities, 8.6 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Vannes since 13 Jun 2026, Toulouse since 13 Jun 2026, Rambouillet since 13 Jun 2026 and 21 more cities.
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.