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Cities in Spain, 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 to9 Sep 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in Spain for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 9 Sep 2026: Alcalá de Guadaira 19.2 µg/m³, Huelva 18.1 µg/m³ and Manlleu 14.9 µg/m³.

  1. 1Alcalá de GuadairaAndalusia19.2
  2. 2HuelvaAndalusia18.1
  3. 3ManlleuCatalonia14.9
  4. 4Prado del ReyAndalusia13.8
  5. 5JumillaMurcia13.1
  6. 6AlcantarillaMurcia12.9
  7. 7MurciaMurcia12.6
  8. 8El PlanMurcia12.5
  9. 9Barrio de PeralMurcia12.5
  10. 10Torrejón de ArdozMadrid11.6
  11. 11CaravacaMurcia11.3
  12. 12ManzanaresCastille-La Mancha11.2
  13. 13Gasteiz / VitoriaBasque Country11.2
  14. 14San RoqueAndalusia11.1
  15. 15ZaragozaAragon11.1
  16. 16MadridMadrid11.1
  17. 17Molina de SeguraMurcia11.0
  18. 18La Línea de la ConcepciónAndalusia10.9
  19. 19San IldefonsoCastille and León10.9
  20. 20LorcaMurcia10.8

+ 31 more cities, 10.8 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Sevilla since 7 Sep 2026, Jaén since 7 Sep 2026, Bailén since 7 Sep 2026 and 14 more cities.

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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.