Europe is a very contrasting region: there you can find both sparkling clean cozy cities and creepy garbage dumps. In this ranking, we list the dirtiest and cleanest cities in Europe in 2021.
The rating of cities by the degree of pollution was made by the Numbeo service. This list is based on the voting of the site users, where they estimated the level of general pollution in cities.
The number at the beginning is the place in the rating, the number in brackets is the number of points (the higher it is, the dirtier the city).
The dirtiest cities
So, the most trash - the cities of the Balkans and Italy. Top 5 dirtiest cities in Europe:
- Tetovo (Macedonia - 97.57),
- Naples (Italy - 84.61),
- Skopje (Again Macedonia! - 82.17),
- Tirana (Albania - 80.51),
- Turin (Italy - 73.48).
You are unlikely to go to these places, so we will separately list popular tourist citiesthat are considered dirty (suddenly it will prompt you to change direction):
- 8th place: Krakow (Poland - 71.09),
- 9th place: Plovdiv (Bulgaria - 68.46),
- 10th place: Kiev (Ukraine - 67.55),
- 11th place: Rome (Italy - 67.17),
- 12th place: Barcelona (Spain - 66.78),
- 13th place: Paris (France - 65.92),
- 16th place: Milan (Italy - 64.58),
- 17th place: St. Petersburg (Russia - 64.47),
- 19th place: Moscow (Russia - 63.02),
- 20th place: Brussels (Belgium - 62.77).
The cleanest cities
Well enough about the bad, let's talk about the cleanest cities in Europe. The list of the best was taken by the cities of Northern Europe and German-speaking countries. We list popular tourist spots from this rating:
- 65. Oslo (Norway - 23.36),
- 66. Tallinn (Estonia - 22.86),
- 67. Copenhagen (Denmark - 21.30),
- 68. Munich (Germany - 20.27),
- 69. Vienna (Austria - 19.10),
- 71. Nizhny Novgorod (Russia - 16.85),
- 73. Stockholm (Sweden - 16.62),
- 74. Zurich (Switzerland - 16.42),
- 75. Reykjavik (Iceland - 15.57),
- 76. Helsinki (Finland - 13:49).
St. Petersburg and Moscow, of course, let us down, but Nizhny Novgorod turned out to be almost as clean as Stockholm and Zurich - you can breathe calmly and be a little proud.
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