PM2.5 annual mean

Ordered best first

This measure has stated that a lower value is better for a household choosing where to settle, so the order and the colour follow from it. Cities with the same value share a rank. This orders one measure; it is not a ranking of cities.

Every value is published at the same geographic level: Point. Period 2024 annual mean. Confidence confidence grade B throughout.

1. Rank1TallinnEstonia

   4.8 µg/m³

   Tallinn city point · [1]
2. Rank1TampereFinland

   4.8 µg/m³

   Tampere city point · [1]
3. Rank3HelsinkiFinland

   5.1 µg/m³

   Helsinki city point · [1]
4. Rank4StockholmSweden

   5.2 µg/m³

   Stockholm city point · [1]
5. Rank5Luxembourg CityLuxembourg

   6.3 µg/m³

   Luxembourg City city point · [1]
6. Rank6CopenhagenDenmark

   6.6 µg/m³

   Copenhagen city point · [1]
7. Rank7DublinIreland

   7.0 µg/m³

   Dublin city point · [1]
8. Rank8OsloNorway

   7.1 µg/m³

   Oslo city point · [1]
9. Rank9ZurichSwitzerland

   7.4 µg/m³

   Zurich city point · [1]
10. Rank10MunichGermany

    7.6 µg/m³

    Munich city point · [1]
11. Rank11LisbonPortugal

    7.9 µg/m³

    Lisbon city point · [1]
12. Rank11The HagueNetherlands

    7.9 µg/m³

    The Hague city point · [1]
13. Rank13BrusselsBelgium

    8.1 µg/m³

    Brussels city point · [1]
14. Rank14HamburgGermany

    8.4 µg/m³

    Hamburg city point · [1]
15. Rank15AmsterdamNetherlands

    8.5 µg/m³

    Amsterdam city point · [1]
16. Rank15SalzburgAustria

    8.5 µg/m³

    Salzburg city point · [1]
17. Rank17UtrechtNetherlands

    8.8 µg/m³

    Utrecht city point · [1]
18. Rank18ParisFrance

    9.0 µg/m³

    Paris city point · [1]
19. Rank19SplitCroatia

    9.1 µg/m³

    Split city point · [1]
20. Rank20LyonFrance

    9.2 µg/m³

    Lyon city point · [1]
21. Rank21PortoPortugal

    9.5 µg/m³

    Porto city point · [1]
22. Rank21VilniusLithuania

    9.5 µg/m³

    Vilnius city point · [1]
23. Rank23ViennaAustria

    10.3 µg/m³

    Vienna city point · [1]
24. Rank24BarcelonaSpain

    10.6 µg/m³

    Barcelona city point · [1]
25. Rank24BerlinGermany

    10.6 µg/m³

    Berlin city point · [1]
26. Rank26ValenciaSpain

    10.7 µg/m³

    Valencia city point · [1]
27. Rank27BratislavaSlovakia

    11.4 µg/m³

    Bratislava city point · [1]
28. Rank28GrazAustria

    11.6 µg/m³

    Graz city point · [1]
29. Rank29PragueCzechia

    12.3 µg/m³

    Prague city point · [1]
30. Rank30GdańskPoland

    12.7 µg/m³

    Gdańsk city point · [1]
31. Rank31LjubljanaSlovenia

    13.9 µg/m³

    Ljubljana city point · [1]
32. Rank32BolognaItaly

    14.1 µg/m³

    Bologna city point · [1]
33. Rank33WarsawPoland

    16.2 µg/m³

    Warsaw city point · [1]
34. Rank34WrocławPoland

    16.3 µg/m³

    Wrocław city point · [1]
35. Rank35ZagrebCroatia

    16.6 µg/m³

    Zagreb city point · [1]
36. Rank36MilanItaly

    19.8 µg/m³

    Milan city point · [1]

Each bar grows from the median towards the side its value falls on. The two halves are scaled independently, so the lowest and highest values reach their ends even when the spread is uneven: a bar's length is comparable with others on the same side of the median, not across it.

How this measure is built

Definition

Annual mean concentration of fine particulate matter under 2.5 micrometres, estimated as the arithmetic mean of validated EEA 1 km grid cells within 10 km of the reviewed city point.

Calculation

unweighted arithmetic mean of the 313 valid 1 km cells whose centre lies within 10 km of the reviewed city point (47.38, 8.54), transformed to EPSG:3035 as (4210676.2, 2697353.8); no-data cells excluded, no station or wider-radius fallback

Limits

This is a model-assisted circular-area estimate, not a monitoring-station reading, municipality average or regulatory-compliance assessment. The 10 km radius, grid resolution, valid-cell count and confidence B must remain visible.

Position

The median, the gap and the rank are arithmetic over the values in this table and can be recomputed from it. They are not a score, carry no weighting, and combine with nothing else on the site.Read the method

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