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Most polluted cities in Washington, United States, September 2025

44 cities in Washington, United States ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 30 days. Worst: Wenatchee at 34.8 µg/m³, #57 of 3,052 cities in the world. Cleanest: Oak Harbor at 3.1. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

About 54.7K people in these 9 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of September 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.

← Spokane 15.3K 10K0
Every city in Washington, United States ranked for September 2025 with monitors in two or more places, one column each, ranked by people breathing unhealthy air: height is people on an average day, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.
  1. 1Spokane
    15.3K
  2. 2Wenatchee
    10.1K
  3. 3Yakima
    9.37K
  4. 4Tri-Cities
    8.72K
  5. 5Spokane Valley
    6.33K
  6. 6Kirklandlow-cost sensors
    2.91K
  7. 7Toppenish
    1.2K
  8. 8Mead
    753
  9. 9Seattle
    0

Low-cost sensors: consumer units, counted only in cities with no government-grade monitor; they read close to reference monitors on the whole, but 15 to 25% high in humid air. How we use them.

Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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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