Monitoring air pollution

Find out the current levels of pollution in the city
 
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Good air quality is essential to our health and well-being.

Poor air can have adverse effects on our quality of life and can damage the fabric of buildings and sensitive flora and fauna.

Air monitoring provides raw measurements of air pollutant concentrations and with appropriate analysis and interpretation, these measurements can be transformed into useful information about air quality.

You can view the current levels of pollutants in the city.

Pollutants routinely monitored in Cambridge

Pollutants are regularly monitored throughout the city at the following places.

Regent Street

Continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone.

Parker Street

Continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide, particulates (PM10).

Gonville Place

Continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and particulates (PM10).

Newmarket Road

Continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and particulates (PM10).

Montague Road

Continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and particulates (PM10).

Monthly nitrogen dioxide averages are measured using diffusion tubes at sites around the city.

Map of continuous monitors

Maps showing location of continuous monitors

Map of nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes

Map showing locations of nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes

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