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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.
The worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 6 Aug 2026: Suceava 14.3 µg/m³, Bragadiru 11.3 µg/m³ and Popeşti-Leordeni 11.2 µg/m³.
- 1SuceavaSuceava14.3
- 2BragadiruIlfov11.3
- 3Popeşti-LeordeniIlfov11.2
- 4CalafatDolj11.2
- 5JilavaIlfov10.9
- 6BufteaIlfov10.3
- 7VoluntariIlfov10.2
- 8Târgu MureşMureș County10.2
- 9CraiovaDolj9.8
- 10BucharestBucharest9.7
- 11IsacceaTulcea County9.6
- 12OtopeniIlfov9.3
- 13IaşiIași County9.3
- 14PiteştiArges9.1
- 15DejCluj County8.8
- 16Sighetu MarmaţieiMaramureş8.6
- 17BraşovBrașov County8.3
- 18HolbocaIași County8.2
- 19TimişoaraTimiș County8.1
- 20Târgu JiuGorj County8.0
+ 5 more cities, 7.8 µg/m³ and below
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Rovinari since 21 Jul 2026 and Baia Mare since 27 Jun 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.