Air pollution: the list of the least polluted large cities with fine particles

The magazine Point published, Thursday, February 9, its list of the least polluted large cities with fine particles. Montpellier (Hérault) tops the standings. Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) comes in second place, followed by Brest (Finistère). Dunce caps go to three northern towns. Tourcoing is the common the most polluted, followed by Lille and Roubaix. Paris comes in 95th place in the ranking of the 100 most polluted cities in France. A classification carried out thanks to the study of fine particles, responsible for an average of 40,000 deaths each year in France.

Pollution has decreased over the past ten years

“The more human activity there is, the more pollution there is (heating, traffic, etc.). But there are also weather conditions that can play an important role, for example in cities in the South, where we can be very windy. In the North for example, it’s quite the opposite: the cloud cover tends to block the dispersion of the particles a little”explains Olivier Hertel, journalist at Point. According to the authors of this survey, pollution has nevertheless decreased throughout France over the past ten years, up to half as much in certain places.