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Most Polluted Cities in Europe

European cities ranked by highest annual PM2.5 concentration. These cities face the greatest challenge meeting EU 2030 clean air targets.

#	City	Country	PM2.5	PM10	NO₂	AQI	2030 Status
1	Worthing	United Kingdom	42.5	-	36.0	43	✗NOT ON TRACK
2	Medway	United Kingdom	33.6	44.0	33.6	34	✗NOT ON TRACK
3	Wien	Austria	33.4	15.0	12.0	33	✗NOT ON TRACK
4	Carlisle	United Kingdom	33.0	37.7	-	33	✗NOT ON TRACK
5	Halle an der Saale	Germany	30.3	17.9	18.9	30	✗NOT ON TRACK
6	Leeds	United Kingdom	30.1	37.1	42.9	30	✗NOT ON TRACK
7	Sheffield	United Kingdom	30.0	-	36.1	30	✗NOT ON TRACK
8	Wroclaw	Poland	26.5	22.9	23.9	27	✗NOT ON TRACK
9	Siedlce	Poland	25.5	26.6	-	26	✗NOT ON TRACK
10	Slavonski Brod	Croatia	25.2	-	14.1	25	✗NOT ON TRACK
11	Ioannina	Greece	24.5	34.2	32.4	25	✗NOT ON TRACK
12	Plymouth	United Kingdom	22.6	24.3	13.6	23	✗NOT ON TRACK
13	Padova	Italy	22.3	30.7	25.5	22	✗NOT ON TRACK
14	Piotrków Trybunalski	Poland	21.5	78.2	15.2	22	✗NOT ON TRACK
15	Gliwice	Poland	21.2	29.0	-	21	✗NOT ON TRACK
16	Swansea	United Kingdom	21.0	-	34.1	21	✗NOT ON TRACK
17	Cremona	Italy	20.6	-	22.5	21	✗NOT ON TRACK
18	Zory	Poland	20.1	28.4	-	20	✗NOT ON TRACK
19	Debrecen	Hungary	20.0	21.9	14.2	20	✗NOT ON TRACK
20	Trondheim	Norway	20.0	12.4	15.0	20	✗NOT ON TRACK
21	Zgierz	Poland	20.0	27.3	13.1	20	✗NOT ON TRACK
22	Zielona Góra	Poland	19.9	21.3	11.5	20	✗NOT ON TRACK
23	Northampton	United Kingdom	19.5	-	11.6	20	✗NOT ON TRACK
24	Wrexham	United Kingdom	19.4	22.8	20.6	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
25	Venezia	Italy	19.4	28.5	23.9	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
26	Asti	Italy	19.3	25.6	21.4	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
27	Ourense	Spain	19.3	28.2	17.1	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
28	Pavia	Italy	19.3	27.7	23.3	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
29	Treviso	Italy	19.2	-	25.1	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
30	Glasgow	United Kingdom	19.0	20.9	72.5	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
31	Katowice	Poland	19.0	34.8	23.8	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
32	Brescia	Italy	19.0	28.6	38.1	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
33	Milano (greater city)	Italy	19.0	33.4	37.0	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
34	Nowy Sacz	Poland	18.8	30.0	-	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
35	Modena	Italy	18.8	28.9	22.7	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
36	Bielsko-Biala	Poland	18.7	19.4	-	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
37	Bournemouth	United Kingdom	18.5	-	9.7	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
38	Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski	Poland	18.5	24.5	-	19	✗NOT ON TRACK
39	Bistrita	Romania	18.4	-	10.5	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
40	Newport	United Kingdom	18.1	22.8	-	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
41	Tyneside conurbation	United Kingdom	18.0	20.1	43.8	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
42	Middlesbrough	United Kingdom	17.8	27.2	-	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
43	Kalisz	Poland	17.7	24.0	12.3	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
44	Alessandria	Italy	17.7	26.0	21.3	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
45	Kraków	Poland	17.5	27.0	23.0	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
46	Bergamo	Italy	17.5	25.0	28.4	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
47	Falkirk	United Kingdom	17.5	16.4	-	18	✗NOT ON TRACK
48	Piacenza	Italy	17.4	27.9	18.4	17	✗NOT ON TRACK
49	Presov	Slovakia	17.2	25.6	33.8	17	✗NOT ON TRACK
50	Terni	Italy	17.1	27.9	18.3	17	✗NOT ON TRACK