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Air quality in Germany today

Updated Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:41:43 GMT

Good: average US AQI 29 across 40 cities Worst now: Kiel (33); cleanest: Offenbach (27).

Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Germany, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.

Average US AQI: 29 Good
Most polluted now: Kiel AQI 33
Cleanest now: Offenbach AQI 27
Cities above 100: 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse

Air quality in Germany today

Right now the modelled air quality in Germany averages a US AQI of 29 (Good) across the 40 cities we track. By category: 40 Good (of 40).

That is 37 points better than the worldwide average of 66 across 3,556 cities.

Kiel has the worst air at 33 with PM2.5 at 3.4 µg/m³, while Offenbach is cleanest at 27. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.

Germany cities by AQI (most polluted first)

City	Region	US AQI	Category	PM2.5 µg/m³	Ozone µg/m³
Kiel	Schleswig-Holstein	33	Good	3.4	71
Bremerhaven	Bremen	32	Good	3.1	70
Hamburg	Hamburg	31	Good	3.3	64
Bremen	Bremen	31	Good	3.1	67
Stuttgart	Baden-Wurttemberg	30	Good	3.5	61
Hannover	Lower Saxony	30	Good	3.9	62
Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia	30	Good	3.8	65
Münster	North Rhine-Westphalia	30	Good	5.1	61
Munich	Bavaria	29	Good	2.9	59
Köln	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	4.4	60
Düsseldorf	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	4.7	61
Dresden	Saxony	29	Good	2.8	60
Nuremberg	Bavaria	29	Good	4.4	60
Bochum	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	5	62
Wuppertal	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	4.7	61
Bielefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	5.2	60
Augsburg	Bavaria	29	Good	3.4	57
Wiesbaden	Hesse	29	Good	3.9	57
Mainz	Rheinland-Pfalz	29	Good	3.9	57
Herne	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	5	62
Leverkusen	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	4.4	60
Neuss	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	4.7	61
Fürth	Bavaria	29	Good	4.4	60
Recklinghausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	5	62
Remscheid	North Rhine-Westphalia	29	Good	4.7	61
Erlangen	Bavaria	29	Good	4.4	60
Essen	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5.3	61
Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5	61
Leipzig	Saxony	28	Good	3.4	59
Duisburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5.6	61
Mannheim	Baden-Wurttemberg	28	Good	4.3	56
Gelsenkirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5.3	61
Oberhausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5.6	61
Mülheim	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5.3	61
Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Rheinland-Pfalz	28	Good	4.3	56
Bottrop	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5.3	61
Moers	North Rhine-Westphalia	28	Good	5.6	61
Berlin	State of Berlin	27	Good	4.6	58
Frankfurt am Main	Hesse	27	Good	4	55
Offenbach	Hesse	27	Good	4	55

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.

Data: Open-Meteo Air Quality API, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).

Air quality in Germany today

Air quality in Germany today

Germany cities by AQI (most polluted first)

What the US AQI numbers mean

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