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Most polluted cities in Nuevo León, Mexico, May 2025
4 cities in Nuevo León, Mexico ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Ciudad Benito Juárez at 26.0 µg/m³, #186 of 2,771 cities in the world. Cleanest: Ciudad General Escobedo at 19.8. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
About 110K people in these 2 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of May 2025.
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.
- 1Monterrey 110K
- 2Ciudad General Escobedo 0
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