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October 22
The air is clean now
Bologna
20°C
Clear
22AQI
1019hPa
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37%
Humidity
Bologna, October 21, 2026: daily mean PM2.5 6 µg/m³ (15 sensors), level “Low” — as in the Atmy Data Hub. Now (20:00 local time): 3.9 µg/m³. Open methodology and data in JSON: Methodology and data sources · JSON
Right now in Bologna, PM2.5 averages 3.9 µg/m³ — “good” on the US EPA scale (approximate, from hourly readings). Mean of 15 sensors on the Atmy network, readings from 19:54–19:57 local time (17:54–17:57 UTC), summary prepared at 20:00 local time. Median: 2.8 µg/m³; range across sensors: 1.1–22.1 µg/m³.
In Bologna the air is good right now (approximate, US EPA scale). From 07:00 to 20:00 local time the city mean PM2.5 rose from 2.0 to 3.9 µg/m³. The highest hour was 17:00 with 25.5 µg/m³.
Light wind (2 m/s) in the evening or at night, as the air cools, possibly traps particles near the ground (a temperature inversion).
Weather now: clear, 20°C, wind 2 m/s, humidity 37%. No major change in the wind is expected in the coming hours. By 07:00 the temperature will be about 11°C.
Written automatically at 20:00 local time (18:00 UTC) from sensor measurements and the weather forecast. Values are approximate; hypotheses are marked.
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Wind, WNW
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Precipitation today
6 µg/m³ Low
Daily mean PM2.5 on October 21, 2026 (00:00–24:00 UTC): 6 µg/m³ from 15 sensors that passed the quality check — the same value as in the Atmy Data Hub.
Monthly means of quality-checked sensors, as in the Data Hub trend; the current month is still incomplete, “-” means no data.
22%An estimate of weather conditions · not a PM2.5 forecast
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Index by time of day
47/100Moderate
Night
Morning
Day
Evening21°/11°
Index by time of day
52/100Moderate
NightMorningDayEvening16°/8°
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51/100Moderate
NightMorningDayEvening16°/7°
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51/100Moderate
NightMorningDayEvening17°/5°
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55/100Moderate
NightMorningDayEvening18°/7°
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56/100Moderate
NightMorningDayEveningForecast of conditions that trap pollution near the surface
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Clear. Feels like 17°C
16°C39%
21°C23%15°C58%7km/hWind from the WNW
22km/hWind gusts
Wind force: 2
Gusts up to 22 km/h are expected.
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Highest current reading: 22.1 µg/m³ (SC #53022). Lowest: 1.1 µg/m³ (SC #16401). The list shows every sensor, highest first.
Source: atmy.ai monitoring network
Sensors in the summary by network: Sensor.Community — 15 sensors.
Atmy shows the networks’ readings after the Data Hub’s quality check: test devices and sensors that fail it are left out.
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All sensors on the map, by city as the map assigns them; the city’s values count only the sensors that pass the Data Hub’s quality check.
Daily mean PM2.5 of the city sensors, µg/m³
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Daily mean PM2.5 on October 21, 2026 (00:00–24:00 UTC): 6 µg/m³ from 15 sensors that passed the quality check — the same value as in the Atmy Data Hub. No. 10 of 22 cities in Italy and No. 220 of 297 worldwide, from the most polluted.
Right now in Bologna, PM2.5 averages 3.9 µg/m³ — “good” on the US EPA scale (approximate, from hourly readings). Mean of 15 sensors on the Atmy network, readings from 19:54–19:57 local time (17:54–17:57 UTC), summary prepared at 20:00 local time. Median: 2.8 µg/m³; range across sensors: 1.1–22.1 µg/m³.
The current level is “good” (US EPA scale, approximate). Air quality is satisfactory; no restrictions are recommended. This is the standard guidance of the scale, not medical advice.
Highest current reading: 22.1 µg/m³ (SC #53022). Lowest: 1.1 µg/m³ (SC #16401). The list shows every sensor, highest first.
From Atmy sensors and connected public networks (citizen, experimental and government monitors), aggregated by Atmy. Values are approximate; see the methodology.
The summary is rebuilt every 15 minutes from the latest reading of each sensor, each no older than one hour.
Over the last 365 days with data, the mean daily PM2.5 in Bologna was 11.6 µg/m³ — 2.3 times the WHO annual guideline (5 µg/m³). Over the last 30 days: 7.3 µg/m³. From Atmy's archive of daily city means.
In Atmy's daily archive, the cleanest month of the last year was May 2026: 3.7 µg/m³ on average.
The most polluted month of the last year was January 2026: 24.5 µg/m³ on average.
From November to March the mean daily PM2.5 was 19.3 µg/m³, from June to August 4.9 µg/m³ (last 365 days).
The daily value is the Data Hub’s: the mean of the city’s sensors that passed the nightly quality check, each with at least 12 valid hours, and only with sensors at four places 500 m apart; days are UTC.
“Now” uses the same sensors and rule: the mean of their latest readings, each at most 60 minutes old, shown only with sensors at four places 500 m apart reporting.
Source: public Atmy monitoring data. Methodology and data sources · Data terms
