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Cities in Poland, 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 30 days to3 Sep 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in Poland for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 3 Sep 2026: Kalisz 12.0 µg/m³, Otwock 10.8 µg/m³ and Radomsko 10.4 µg/m³.

  1. 1KaliszGreater Poland12.0
  2. 2OtwockMazovia10.8
  3. 3RadomskoŁódź Voivodeship10.4
  4. 4WrocławLower Silesia9.8
  5. 5ToruńKujawsko-Pomorskie9.5
  6. 6ŁódźŁódź Voivodeship9.5
  7. 7ŁaskŁódź Voivodeship9.5
  8. 8Jastrzębie ZdrójSilesia9.5
  9. 9GdyniaPomerania9.5
  10. 10RadomMazovia9.1
  11. 11PruszkówMazovia9.1
  12. 12Gorzów WielkopolskiLubusz9.1
  13. 13WłocławekKujawsko-Pomorskie9.0
  14. 14GdańskPomerania9.0
  15. 15StarachowiceŚwiętokrzyskie8.9
  16. 16ZamośćLublin8.8
  17. 17EłkWarmia-Masuria8.8
  18. 18PołaniecŚwiętokrzyskie8.7
  19. 19NiskoSubcarpathia8.6
  20. 20RzeszówSubcarpathia8.5

+ 39 more cities, 8.5 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Wawer since 29 Jul 2026 and Augustów since 17 Jul 2026.

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.