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Air quality in Spain

Capital: MadridSpanish, Catalan, Galician, BasqueUpdated October 2026
10µg/m³ national average

Air quality in Spain

People in Spain breathe an average of 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (2023), 2× the WHO guideline. Moderate.

Air quality by place in Spain

Measured annual averages from the WHO Ambient Air Quality Database.

PlacePM2.5YearLevel
Gran Canaria5 µg/m³2013Meets the WHO guideline
Lanzarote7 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Benidorm7.9 µg/m³2013Fairly clean
Málaga8 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Costa del Sol8 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Las Palmas8 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Salamanca8 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Torremolinos8 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Cádiz8.5 µg/m³2024Fairly clean
Tenerife9 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Santiago de Compostela9 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Toledo9.8 µg/m³2024Fairly clean
Madrid10 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Bilbao10 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Alicante10 µg/m³2013Fairly clean
Fuerteventura10 µg/m³2021Fairly clean
Costa Blanca10 µg/m³2013Fairly clean
Palma10.6 µg/m³2010Moderate
Seville11 µg/m³2021Moderate
Valencia11 µg/m³2021Moderate
Maspalomas11.3 µg/m³2024Moderate
Barcelona12 µg/m³2021Moderate
Córdoba12 µg/m³2021Moderate
Marbella12.6 µg/m³2020Moderate
Granada13 µg/m³2021Moderate
Murcia13.2 µg/m³2024Moderate

Air quality by place

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