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Cities in The Netherlands, 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 to6 Oct 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in The Netherlands for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 6 Oct 2026: Breda 8.4 µg/m³, Venray 8.3 µg/m³ and Schiedam 8.1 µg/m³.

  1. 1BredaNorth Brabant8.4
  2. 2VenrayLimburg8.3
  3. 3SchiedamSouth Holland8.1
  4. 4NijmegenGelderland7.8
  5. 5LunterenGelderland7.8
  6. 6MedemblikNorth Holland7.7
  7. 7TilburgNorth Brabant7.6
  8. 8RotterdamSouth Holland7.6
  9. 9RidderkerkSouth Holland7.6
  10. 10BarneveldGelderland7.6
  11. 11AmsterdamNorth Holland7.5
  12. 12UtrechtUtrecht7.4
  13. 13SpijkenisseSouth Holland7.4
  14. 14LopikUtrecht7.4
  15. 15WaalreNorth Brabant7.3
  16. 16's-GravenzandeSouth Holland7.3
  17. 17BreukelenUtrecht7.3
  18. 18ZwanenburgNorth Holland7.2
  19. 19VelserbroekNorth Holland7.2
  20. 20ZaanstadNorth Holland7.1

+ 17 more cities, 7.1 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Wormer since 6 Oct 2026, Purmerend since 6 Oct 2026 and Venlo since 21 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.