Air quality by country
Air quality in France today
Updated
Good: average US AQI 30 across 19 cities Worst now: Dieppe (38); cleanest: Mâcon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (26).
Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across France, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.
- Average US AQI
- 30 Good
- Most polluted now
- Dieppe AQI 38
- Cleanest now
- Mâcon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté AQI 26
- Cities above 100
- 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse
Air quality in France today
Right now the modelled air quality in France averages a US AQI of 30 (Good) across the 19 cities we track. By category: 19 Good (of 19).
That is 36 points better than the worldwide average of 66 across 3,556 cities.
Dieppe has the worst air at 38 with PM2.5 at 3.7 µg/m³, while Mâcon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is cleanest at 26. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.
France cities by AQI (most polluted first)
| City | Region | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ | Ozone µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dieppe | Normandy | 38 | Good | 3.7 | 81 |
| Le Havre | Normandy | 37 | Good | 4.4 | 73 |
| Nantes | Pays de la Loire | 32 | Good | 6.5 | 56 |
| Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire | Centre-Val de Loire | 31 | Good | 7.3 | 52 |
| Paris | Île-de-France | 30 | Good | 5.5 | 55 |
| Marseille | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 30 | Good | 2.7 | 53 |
| Marne La Vallée | Île-de-France | 30 | Good | 6.7 | 57 |
| Paris 15 Vaugirard | Île-de-France | 30 | Good | 5.5 | 55 |
| Paris 13 Gobelins | Île-de-France | 30 | Good | 5.5 | 55 |
| Paris 16 Passy | Île-de-France | 30 | Good | 5.5 | 55 |
| Tours | Centre-Val de Loire | 30 | Good | 7.6 | 49 |
| Paris 14 Observatoire | Île-de-France | 30 | Good | 5.5 | 55 |
| Boulogne-Billancourt | Île-de-France | 30 | Good | 5.5 | 55 |
| Laval, Pays de la Loire | Pays de la Loire | 29 | Good | 6.4 | 45 |
| Bordeaux | New Aquitaine | 28 | Good | 13.9 | 34 |
| Lyon | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 27 | Good | 10.4 | 25 |
| Toulouse | Occitanie | 26 | Good | 4.1 | 41 |
| Nice | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 26 | Good | 5.3 | 39 |
| Mâcon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 26 | Good | 6.5 | 47 |
What the US AQI numbers mean
| US AQI | Category | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 0-50 | Good | Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no risk; a good time for outdoor activity. |
| 51-100 | Moderate | Acceptable for most people. Unusually sensitive people should consider shortening long or heavy exertion outdoors. |
| 101-150 | Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups | People with heart or lung disease, older adults, children and teens should cut back on prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors. |
| 151-200 | Unhealthy | Everyone should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors; sensitive groups should avoid it and keep windows closed. |
| 201-300 | Very Unhealthy | Health alert: everyone should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors, and sensitive groups should stay indoors. |
| 301-500 | Hazardous | Emergency conditions: everyone should avoid all outdoor physical activity and stay indoors with filtered air if possible. The scale tops out at 500; heavier dust or smoke is shown as 500. |
Modelled by CAMS (Copernicus) via Open-Meteo, refreshed twice a day; read hour by hour from the forecast.
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Data: Open-Meteo Air Quality API, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).