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Most polluted cities in Washington, United States, 2025
42 cities in Washington, United States ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 365 days; 27 above the WHO annual guideline (5.0 µg/m³). Worst: Wenatchee at 10.1 µg/m³, #913 of 2,624 cities in the world. Cleanest: Mount Vernon at 2.1. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
Ranked by unhealthy days: the share of each city's measured days with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse on the US EPA's scale. Ties go to the higher average.
- 1Wenatchee 4%
- 2Toppenish 1%
- 3Mead 1%
- 4Ellensburg 1%
- 5Yakima 1%
- 6Ephrata 1%
- 7Quincy 1%
- 8Airway Heights 1%
- 9Spokane Valley 1%
- 10Spokane 1%
- 11Inglewood-Finn Hilllow-cost sensors 0%
- 12Tri-Cities 0%
- 13Prosser 0%
- 14Moses Lake 0%
- 15Sunnyside 0%
- 16Shelton 0%
- 17Anacortes 0%
- 18White Center 0%
- 19Auburn 0%
- 19Tacoma 0%
- 21Renton 0%
- 21Seattle 0%
- 23Port Angeles 0%
- 23Picnic Point-North Lynnwood 0%
- 25Vancouver 0%
- 26Lynden 0%
- 27Parkland 0%
- 28Walla Walla 0%
- 29Shoreline 0%
- 30Bellingham 0%
- 30Lacey 0%
- 32Longview 0%
- 33Pullman 0%
- 34Bremerton 0%
- 34Chehalis 0%
- 36Ridgefield 0%
- 37Port Townsend 0%
- 38North Bend 0%
- 39Aberdeen 0%
- 40Bellevue 0%
- 41Oak Harbor 0%
- 42Mount Vernon 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.
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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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Washington, United States, PM2.5, 2025, smogrank.com/us/region/washington/history/2025 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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