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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.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to9 Sep 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in Romania for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 9 Sep 2026: Suceava 14.5 µg/m³, Calafat 12.8 µg/m³ and Rovinari 11.8 µg/m³.

  1. 1SuceavaSuceava14.5
  2. 2CalafatDolj12.8
  3. 3RovinariGorj County11.8
  4. 4CraiovaDolj10.8
  5. 5IsacceaTulcea County10.7
  6. 6Popeşti-LeordeniIlfov10.6
  7. 7TimişoaraTimiș County10.5
  8. 8BufteaIlfov10.5
  9. 9BragadiruIlfov10.3
  10. 10Târgu MureşMureș County10.1
  11. 11JilavaIlfov9.9
  12. 12BucharestBucharest9.6
  13. 13VoluntariIlfov9.5
  14. 14OtopeniIlfov8.9
  15. 15IaşiIași County8.9
  16. 16Sighetu MarmaţieiMaramureş8.8
  17. 17BraşovBrașov County8.3
  18. 18HolbocaIași County8.2
  19. 19Cluj-NapocaCluj County8.2
  20. 20Târgu JiuGorj County8.1

+ 6 more cities, 7.6 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Piteşti since 7 Sep 2026 and Dej since 6 Sep 2026.

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.