SmogRank / Poland / Lower Silesia / Wrocław
Wrocław, month by month
Wrocław has a measured daily mean on 1,134 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was January 2026, at 99 US AQI (34.9 µg/m³), 123rd of 2,617 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was July 2024, at 49 US AQI (8.8 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 67 US AQI (17.7 µg/m³), against 62 US AQI (15.1 µg/m³) in 2024.
Every month since 2023
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
Months without a mean, and why
10 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 5 of 11 days measured; a month needs 8. The others: 2 with no readings from the monitors, 4 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| May 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2026 | 13 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 17 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Dec 2023 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Nov 2023 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Oct 2023 | 4 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 27 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Aug 2023 | 19 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 12 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jul 2023 | 15 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 16 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2023 | 18 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 12 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| May 2023 | 19 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 12 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Wrocław's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 9934.9 µg/m³ | 123rdof 2,617 | Europe, January and February 2026 Eastern Europe, January 2026and 1 more |
| February 2025 | 9633.1 µg/m³ | 181stof 2,633 | Europe, 14 February to 1 March 2025 Europe, 1 to 14 February 2025 |
| February 2026 | 9029.8 µg/m³ | 262ndof 2,866 | Germany, Poland and Czechia, February 2026 Europe, January and February 2026 |
| March 2025 | 8728.3 µg/m³ | 337thof 2,862 | Europe, March 2025 Germany, Poland and 25 more countries, March 2025and 1 more |
| December 2025 | 8225.8 µg/m³ | 357thof 3,006 | Eastern Europe, 16 to 21 December 2025 Eastern Europe, 3 to 7 December 2025 |
| March 2026 | 7924.0 µg/m³ | 462ndof 2,971 | Europe, 18 to 25 March 2026 |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Wrocław's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jan 2024 | 205130.0 µg/m³ | Europe, 8 to 27 January 2024 |
| 28 Dec 2024 | 202127.0 µg/m³ | Europe, 24 December 2024 to 3 January 2025 |
| 27 Dec 2024 | 17387.4 µg/m³ | Europe, 24 December 2024 to 3 January 2025 |
| 23 Jan 2026 | 16575.3 µg/m³ | Europe, January and February 2026 |
| 9 Jan 2026 | 16474.0 µg/m³ | Eastern Europe, January 2026 |
| 18 Jan 2026 | 16270.5 µg/m³ | Europe, January and February 2026 |
| 2 Mar 2023 | 15865.6 µg/m³ | Europe, 28 February to 4 March 2023 |
| 19 Jan 2025 | 15865.0 µg/m³ | Germany, France and 19 more countries, January 2025 |
| 11 Jan 2024 | 15663.0 µg/m³ | Europe, 8 to 27 January 2024 |
| 4 Feb 2026 | 15560.7 µg/m³ | Europe, January and February 2026 |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Wrocław, Poland, 1 Jan 2023 – 11 Oct 2026. Monitor data from EEA, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/pl/wroclaw/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Wrocław now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 18:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).