SmogRank / World / Mexico / May 2024

Most people breathing unhealthy air in Mexico, May 2024

2 cities in Mexico measured at 2 or more places, ranked by how many people breathed unhealthy air on an average day over the 31 days. The most people breathing unhealthy air: Celaya, Mexico, about 110K on an average day. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

Mexico has 42 cities ranked over the last 30 days, but only 10 here: most of its monitors have no readings for May 2024 in OpenAQ's archive, where ours come from, or too few to rank. Cities missing from this board weren't clean, just not measured.

About 110K people in these 2 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of May 2024.

Ranked by people: each city's population times its share of unhealthy days, those with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+). That is how many people living there breathed unhealthy air on an average day. Only cities measured at 2 or more places at least 3 km apart are ranked: one monitor shouldn't speak for a whole city. Population is the city itself, not its wider metro area.

The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales

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Ranked cities in each region, May 2024.

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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Mexico, by people breathing unhealthy air, PM2.5, May 2024, smogrank.com/mx/history/2024-05?by=people (accessed 7 Oct 2026).

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