Air quality by country
Air quality in Poland today
Updated
Moderate: average US AQI 53 across 24 cities Worst now: Kraków (63); cleanest: Police (28).
Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Poland, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.
- Average US AQI
- 53 Moderate
- Most polluted now
- Kraków AQI 63
- Cleanest now
- Police AQI 28
- Cities above 100
- 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse
Air quality in Poland today
Right now the modelled air quality in Poland averages a US AQI of 53 (Moderate) across the 24 cities we track. By category: 6 Good, 18 Moderate (of 24).
That is 13 points better than the worldwide average of 66 across 3,556 cities.
Kraków has the worst air at 63 with PM2.5 at 4.5 µg/m³, while Police is cleanest at 28. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.
Poland cities by AQI (most polluted first)
| City | Region | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ | Ozone µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kraków | Lesser Poland | 63 | Moderate | 4.5 | 56 |
| Warsaw | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Mokotów | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Praga Południe | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Ursynów | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Wola | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Bielany | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Białołeka | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Targówek | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Bemowo | Mazovia | 62 | Moderate | 9.9 | 46 |
| Katowice | Silesia | 55 | Moderate | 8.2 | 49 |
| Sosnowiec | Silesia | 55 | Moderate | 8.2 | 49 |
| Bytom | Silesia | 55 | Moderate | 8.2 | 49 |
| Tychy | Silesia | 55 | Moderate | 8.2 | 49 |
| Chorzów | Silesia | 55 | Moderate | 8.2 | 49 |
| Lublin | Lublin | 54 | Moderate | 6 | 57 |
| Łódź | Łódź Voivodeship | 53 | Moderate | 7.8 | 48 |
| Białystok | Podlasie | 53 | Moderate | 7.6 | 58 |
| Bydgoszcz | Kujawsko-Pomorskie | 44 | Good | 6 | 54 |
| Gdańsk | Pomerania | 41 | Good | 4.9 | 53 |
| Wrocław | Lower Silesia | 39 | Good | 3.6 | 55 |
| Poznań | Greater Poland | 39 | Good | 4.9 | 53 |
| Szczecin | West Pomerania | 28 | Good | 4.1 | 60 |
| Police | West Pomerania | 28 | Good | 4.1 | 60 |
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).