Air quality
Air quality in Wrocław today
Updated
Moderate (US AQI 51) Acceptable for most people. Unusually sensitive people should consider shortening long or heavy exertion outdoors. Model estimate for Sun, Oct 25, 7:00 pm (18:00 UTC).
Live AQI, PM2.5, PM10 and ozone for Wrocław, Lower Silesia, Poland, with a 48-hour forecast and the best time to be outside.
- US AQI now
- 51 Moderate
- PM2.5
- 11 µg/m³ 0.7× WHO 24-h guideline
- PM10
- 13 µg/m³
- Ozone
- 58 µg/m³
- Dominant pollutant
- PM2.5 sub-index 51
- Best hour tomorrow
- 6:00 am AQI 36
- European AQI
- 32
Air quality in Wrocław right now
Right now the modelled US Air Quality Index for Wrocław, Lower Silesia, Poland is 51, which falls in the "Moderate" band (up to 100). Acceptable for most people. Unusually sensitive people should consider shortening long or heavy exertion outdoors.
The index is driven mainly by PM2.5, whose own sub-index is 51. Fine and coarse particles come from traffic, heating, industry, dust and smoke; they build up on calm nights and clear when wind or rain arrives.
PM2.5 is 11 µg/m³, within the WHO 24-hour guideline of 15 µg/m³; PM10 is 13 µg/m³ against a guideline of 45; ozone is 58 µg/m³ (below the WHO 8-hour level of 100); nitrogen dioxide is 7.4 µg/m³ (below the 24-hour guideline of 25).
Also this hour: carbon monoxide 199 µg/m³.
NASA FIRMS shows 17 fire hotspots within 300 km in the last day (nearest about 64 km), but particle levels are not elevated enough to point to smoke right now.
Wrocław AQI forecast: next 48 hours
Over the next 24 hours the AQI is forecast to range from 36 around Mon 6:00 am to 51 around Sun 7:00 pm, from "Good" at best to "Moderate" at worst.
The following day is expected to be worse, averaging about 64 against 40 for the next 24 hours.
| Local time (Europe/Warsaw) | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ | PM10 µg/m³ | Ozone µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 7:00 pm | 51 | Moderate | 11.1 | 13 | 58 |
| Sun 10:00 pm | 47 | Good | 11.5 | 13 | 50 |
| Mon 1:00 am | 42 | Good | 6.5 | 8 | 52 |
| Mon 4:00 am | 38 | Good | 4.1 | 7 | 56 |
| Mon 7:00 am | 36 | Good | 6.2 | 9 | 51 |
| Mon 10:00 am | 36 | Good | 5.9 | 9 | 60 |
| Mon 1:00 pm | 37 | Good | 5.3 | 9 | 64 |
| Mon 4:00 pm | 39 | Good | 11.5 | 14 | 56 |
| Mon 7:00 pm | 45 | Good | 24.2 | 33 | 33 |
| Mon 10:00 pm | 52 | Moderate | 35.4 | 40 | 26 |
| Tue 1:00 am | 58 | Moderate | 28.3 | 36 | 21 |
| Tue 4:00 am | 63 | Moderate | 22.6 | 28 | 22 |
| Tue 7:00 am | 67 | Moderate | 21.1 | 27 | 17 |
| Tue 10:00 am | 70 | Moderate | 13.1 | 19 | 48 |
| Tue 1:00 pm | 71 | Moderate | 9.4 | 13 | 61 |
| Tue 4:00 pm | 72 | Moderate | 12.7 | 17 | 61 |
| Tue 7:00 pm | 73 | Moderate | 24.2 | 29 | 42 |
Every third hour of the CAMS forecast via Open-Meteo. US AQI uses rolling averages (24 h for particles, 8 h for ozone), so it moves more slowly than the hourly concentrations.
Best time to be outside in Wrocław tomorrow
Between 6 am and 9 pm local time, the cleanest air tomorrow is forecast around 6:00 am (AQI 36, Good) and the worst around 9:00 pm (AQI 51). That is a swing of 15 points, so a run or walk around 6:00 am is noticeably better.
Wrocław vs the rest of Poland
Across 25 Poland cities we track, the average US AQI right now is 67 (Moderate). Wrocław at 51 is 16 points cleaner than average.
It ranks 7 of 25 from cleanest to most polluted; the cleanest is Szczecin (29) and the most polluted Kraków (90).
For context, the median across 3,909 cities worldwide is 57.
Air quality in cities near Wrocław
| City | Distance | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poznań | 145 km | 42 | Good | 12.1 |
| Bytom | 158 km | 71 | Moderate | 12.9 |
| Chorzów | 163 km | 71 | Moderate | 12.9 |
| Ostrava | 167 km | 54 | Moderate | 6.8 |
| Katowice | 169 km | 71 | Moderate | 12.9 |
| Sosnowiec | 172 km | 71 | Moderate | 12.9 |
| Tychy | 174 km | 71 | Moderate | 12.9 |
| Łódź | 185 km | 62 | Moderate | 10 |
Model vs measured
The nearest measured PM2.5 reading is 2.3 µg/m³ from Sensor.Community (median of 57 sensors), centred about 12 km from the city centre. That is 8.8 µg/m³ below the model estimate of 11 µg/m³. Low-cost sensors can read high in humid air; reference monitors are more accurate but sparser.
Advice for sensitive groups
At 51, most people are fine outdoors. If you are unusually sensitive to PM2.5, keep long or intense workouts to the cleaner hours shown above.
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. |
Values on this page are modelled by CAMS (Copernicus) and served by Open-Meteo; they are estimates for the area around the city centre, not readings from an official monitor.
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Data: Open-Meteo Air Quality API, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), Sensor.Community, NASA FIRMS.