SmogRank / World / Europe / The Netherlands / Friesland
Most polluted cities in Friesland, The Netherlands
1 measured city, this year; 1 above the WHO annual guideline. Worst: Kollum at 7.8 µg/m³, #1,904 in the world.
48 monitors in The Netherlands stopped reporting on 4 Oct, 02:00 local time. Cities that rely on them are missing from the 24-hour board and may drop from the longer ones; that isn't clean air, and they return when the data does.
- 1Kollum 431.6×
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Estimated: cities without a monitor
Friesland cities we can't measure, with model estimates for the last 7 days. Listed by population, not ranked: estimates aren't precise enough to rank. Model estimates from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), adjusted to measured cities nearby where there are any. Adjusted, a single day lands within ×1.5 of what a monitor would read about two times in three; unadjusted, it can be off by half or double. Treat them as a guide, not a measurement.
| City | 7-day estimate |
|---|---|
| Leeuwarden | ≈ 9 µg/m³ |
| Drachten | ≈ 8 µg/m³ |
| Heerenveen | ≈ 10 µg/m³ |
| Sneek | ≈ 8 µg/m³ |
| Harlingen | ≈ 8 µg/m³ |
Bad-air episodes in Friesland
- Europe, 18 to 25 March 202618 to 25 March 2026, 8 days430 cities136 µg/m³peak, Łask
- Europe, 1 to 12 March 20261 to 12 March 2026, 12 days532 cities109 µg/m³peak, Radomsko
- Europe, January and February 202612 January to 12 February 2026, 32 days625 cities252 µg/m³peak, Travnik
- Europe, March 202519 to 30 March 2025, 12 days401 cities83 µg/m³peak, Kikinda
- Germany, Poland and 25 more countries, March 20253 to 13 March 2025, 11 days553 cities152 µg/m³peak, Negotin
- Europe, 14 February to 1 March 202514 February to 1 March 2025, 16 days619 cities178 µg/m³peak, Krotoszyn
Times when many cities around here had PM2.5 at twice their usual or more on the same days.
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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Friesland, The Netherlands, PM2.5, this year to 5 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC, smogrank.com/nl/region/friesland?w=year.
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Updated 2026-10-05 03:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.