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Most polluted cities in Leinster, Ireland, 2023

2 cities in Leinster, Ireland ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 365 days; 2 above the WHO annual guideline (5.0 µg/m³). Worst: Dún Laoghaire at 7.3 µg/m³, #973 of 1,302 cities in the world. Cleanest: Dublin at 6.6. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

OpenAQ's archive, where our readings come from, has almost none for 56 of these 365 days. Cities in the United States and Europe have them from the EPA's and the European Environment Agency's own records of the same monitors; elsewhere a city's average is over its other days. Why.

Leinster has 15 cities ranked over the last 30 days, but only 2 here: most of its monitors have no readings for 2023 in OpenAQ's archive, where ours come from, or too few to rank. Cities missing from this board weren't clean, just not measured.

  1. 1Dún Laoghaire
    411.5×
  2. 2Dublin
    371.3×
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Leinster, Ireland, PM2.5, 2023, smogrank.com/ie/region/leinster/history/2023 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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