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Air quality in Sertã

Castelo Branco · Beira Baixa · all municipalities

74/100

average across the concelho

Air across Sertã is cleaner than most of the country. It ranks 49th of the 278 municipalities that have a modelled figure, cleanest first.

In absolute terms fine particles here run at 4.1 µg/m³, below both the WHO guideline of 5 and the EU limit of 10 that applies from 2030. Very few places in Europe are.

Sertã
cleanest in Portugaldirtiest

MODELLED — the mean over the 447 one-kilometre cells that fall inside Sertã, for 2024. Area-weighted, not population-weighted: a large empty concelho with one town is scored mostly by its empty land. An address inside it can sit well above or below this figure, which is what the address lookup is for.

Modelled annual values, 2024

PollutantMeanRange across the area2021
PM2.5 4.1µg/m³ 3.4 – 6.8 4.6
PM10 11.3µg/m³ 9.9 – 14.4 11.2
NO₂ 1.6µg/m³ 0.9 – 8.4 1.6
O₃ 112.0µg/m³ 103.3 – 119.9 111.8

MODELLED — EEA / ETC-HE 1 km European air quality maps. The range shows the cleanest and dirtiest cell inside the boundary, which is usually the more useful number: it is the spread a buyer is choosing between. Ozone is the 93.2nd percentile of the daily maximum 8-hour mean, not an annual mean.

Fine particles under 2.5 micrometres (PM2.5), modelled, four years

0510Sertã 2021: 4.6 µg/m³Sertã 2022: 5.8 µg/m³Sertã 2023: 4.6 µg/m³Sertã 2024: 4.1 µg/m³SertãWHO guideline 5EU limit from 2030: 1021222324

Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), modelled, four years

01020Sertã 2021: 1.6 µg/m³Sertã 2022: 1.7 µg/m³Sertã 2023: 2.0 µg/m³Sertã 2024: 1.6 µg/m³SertãWHO guideline 10EU limit from 2030: 2021222324

MODELLED — the area mean in each year's map. Four years is not a trend. Weather moves these numbers between years by more than most policy does, and the 2021 and 2022 maps were produced with a different input mix from the 2023 and 2024 ones.

What the monitors near Sertã have measured

These are real measurements from the nearest official monitoring stations. A station a few kilometres away can differ a lot from a specific street, especially for nitrogen dioxide, which falls off sharply away from traffic.

Fine particles under 2.5 micrometres (PM2.5)

0510Chamusca 2016: 7.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2017: 8.4 µg/m³Chamusca 2018: 7.2 µg/m³Chamusca 2019: 6.9 µg/m³Chamusca 2020: 5.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2021: 5.7 µg/m³Chamusca 2022: 6.2 µg/m³Chamusca 2023: 4.9 µg/m³Chamusca 2024: 5.2 µg/m³Chamusca 2025: 5.4 µg/m³Chamusca 2026: 6.0 µg/m³ChamuscaWHO guideline 5EU limit from 2030: 10161820222426
Chamusca 60 km south-west, backgroundWHO guideline 5 µg/m³EU limit from 2030: 10 µg/m³

Coarse particles under 10 micrometres (PM10)

01020Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2016: 15.0 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2017: 17.0 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2018: 14.6 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2019: 17.4 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2020: 15.8 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2021: 18.9 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2022: 23.3 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2023: 19.5 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2024: 20.4 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2025: 17.5 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2026: 19.0 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2018: 25.6 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2019: 22.2 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2020: 19.0 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2021: 21.8 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2022: 23.1 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2023: 20.4 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2024: 21.3 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2025: 19.9 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2026: 20.8 µg/m³Chamusca 2016: 14.5 µg/m³Chamusca 2017: 16.8 µg/m³Chamusca 2018: 15.5 µg/m³Chamusca 2019: 13.5 µg/m³Chamusca 2020: 11.6 µg/m³Chamusca 2021: 13.6 µg/m³Chamusca 2022: 16.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2023: 12.2 µg/m³Chamusca 2024: 12.6 µg/m³Chamusca 2025: 12.7 µg/m³Chamusca 2026: 14.3 µg/m³Coimbra/…Institut…ChamuscaWHO guideline 15EU limit from 2030: 20161820222426
Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 52 km north-west, backgroundCoimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 54 km north-west, trafficChamusca 60 km south-west, backgroundWHO guideline 15 µg/m³EU limit from 2030: 20 µg/m³

Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂)

01020Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2016: 14.8 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2017: 17.3 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2018: 14.4 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2019: 14.7 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2022: 9.2 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2023: 10.3 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2024: 9.3 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2025: 9.9 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2026: 8.3 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2020: 22.1 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2021: 23.9 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2022: 18.3 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2023: 11.8 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2024: 11.8 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2025: 14.9 µg/m³Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 2026: 12.6 µg/m³Chamusca 2016: 4.7 µg/m³Chamusca 2017: 4.8 µg/m³Chamusca 2018: 4.9 µg/m³Chamusca 2019: 4.4 µg/m³Chamusca 2020: 3.9 µg/m³Chamusca 2021: 4.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2022: 4.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2023: 4.0 µg/m³Chamusca 2024: 3.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2025: 3.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2026: 3.1 µg/m³Coimbra/…Institut…ChamuscaWHO guideline 10EU limit from 2030: 20161820222426
Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 52 km north-west, backgroundCoimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães 54 km north-west, trafficChamusca 60 km south-west, backgroundWHO guideline 10 µg/m³EU limit from 2030: 20 µg/m³

Ozone (O₃)

050Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2016: 52.3 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2017: 50.5 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2018: 53.3 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2019: 49.8 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2020: 48.0 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2021: 54.6 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2022: 61.7 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2023: 51.8 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2024: 54.8 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2025: 60.0 µg/m³Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 2026: 62.2 µg/m³Chamusca 2016: 71.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2017: 71.5 µg/m³Chamusca 2018: 73.4 µg/m³Chamusca 2019: 68.9 µg/m³Chamusca 2020: 70.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2021: 71.3 µg/m³Chamusca 2022: 71.8 µg/m³Chamusca 2023: 70.1 µg/m³Chamusca 2024: 71.1 µg/m³Chamusca 2025: 70.2 µg/m³Chamusca 2026: 77.0 µg/m³ChamuscaInstitut…161820222426
Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra 52 km north-west, backgroundChamusca 60 km south-west, background

This is the annual mean of the hourly ozone measurements. The EU target value of 120 µg/m³ is written against a different statistic — the daily maximum 8-hour mean — so it is not drawn here. Ozone behaves unlike the others: it is destroyed by fresh traffic exhaust, so a busy street often reads lower than the countryside around it.

The stations these come from

StationKind of siteDistance
Instituto Geofísico de Coimbra
Coimbra
background
urban
52 km
north-west
Coimbra/ Avenida Fernão Magalhães
Coimbra
traffic
urban
54 km
north-west
Chamusca
Chamusca
background
rural
60 km
south-west

The nearest station with usable data is 52 km away. At that distance it describes a region, not this place, and for nitrogen dioxide it says almost nothing about a particular street.

A traffic station sits beside a busy road and reads the worst case; a background station reads what the area as a whole breathes; an industrial one sits near a plant. Which kind you are looking at matters more than the distance.

MEASURED — hourly observations reported by Portugal to the European Environment Agency, aggregated here into annual means. Years with less than 50% valid hours are left off the chart. Station names and locations come from APA's QualAr register; station type and setting from the EEA's station metadata. Verified data through 2025; the most recent year is provisional and not yet verified.

What is near this address

Traffic

Distance measured from this location to the nearest road tagged as a motorway, trunk or primary road in OpenStreetMap. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Nitrogen dioxide from traffic falls off within a few hundred metres of a busy road.

Industry within 10 km

REPORTED BY THE OPERATOR — European Industrial Emissions Portal (European Environment Agency), reporting year 2024, air releases in tonnes per year as the operator declared them. Ranked by the total of the pollutants that affect local air; carbon dioxide is deliberately excluded because it is a climate pollutant and would otherwise dominate the ranking. A facility being listed is not a statement that it affects this address.

Known projects nearby

This is a hand-curated list with sources, not a forecast and not a model. We have not estimated how much any of these would change the air. The list is small and certainly incomplete: it holds 15 entries for the whole country. Anything genuinely local — a quarry, a new estate road, a planning application — will not be here, and a buyer should still ask the council.

Nothing on our list is within 15 km of here. That means nothing we have written down, not that nothing is planned — see the caution below.

Nearby councils in Beira Baixa

CouncilRatingPM2.5NO₂
Oleiros 863.61.1
Penamacor 833.41.9
Proença-a-Nova 734.11.8
Vila de Rei 734.31.3
Castelo Branco 634.32.7
Vila Velha de Ródão 624.52.5
Idanha-a-Nova 614.13.0

MODELLED — same 1 km maps, same year, area means.

Sources and what they cannot tell you

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