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Air at the AQMS Prishtine - IHMK station

Priština, Kosovo

Network: Kosova Environmental Protection Agency ( KEPA) · Station code: XK0001A

In 2025

at least

4 days

with a daily average of particulate matter PM10 above the EU limit of 50 µg/m³.

Readings are missing for part of the period, so the real number may be higher.

Worst day: March 7, 2025, PM10 66 µg/m³ as a daily average, 1.3 times the limit.

Daily average for 244 of 365 days · data for 2025 not yet finally verified · Yardstick: EU limits (Directive 2008/50/EC)

All figures by year and month

No data has arrived from this station since November 27, 2025 at 20:00

No reading for 314 days.

We take the readings from the European Environment Agency (EEA), and no new values for this station are coming from there. The cause may lie with the station itself or with the data transmission.

Last reading: November 27, 2025 at 20:00
Measured then: NO₂ 23.4 µg/m³, O₃ 13.9 µg/m³, PM10 6.4 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.1 µg/m³

All outages of this station

Nearest station measuring now: Tetovo, None, North Macedonia, about 74 km away.

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How the air is changing

There are not enough readings to compare with the week before.

  • PM10: too few readings to compare
  • PM2.5: too few readings to compare
  • NO₂: too few readings to compare
  • O₃: too few readings to compare
  • SO₂: too few readings to compare

There are not enough readings to compare with the month before.

  • PM10: too few readings to compare
  • PM2.5: too few readings to compare
  • NO₂: too few readings to compare
  • O₃: too few readings to compare
  • SO₂: too few readings to compare

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Particulate matter PM10

no measurement

Now

too few readings

Last 24 hours

measured in 0 % of hours

too few readings

Last 7 days

measured in 0 % of hours

too few readings

Last 30 days

measured in 0 % of hours

too few readings

Last 12 months

measured in 12 % of hours · provisional

Days in 2023: PM10, daily average above 50 µg/m³

20 days above the limit. 28 days without any reading from the station.

1102031JanJan 1: 75 µg/m³, above the limitJan 2: 59 µg/m³, above the limitJan 3: 72 µg/m³, above the limitJan 4: 58 µg/m³, above the limitJan 7: 54 µg/m³, above the limitJan 8: 73 µg/m³, above the limitFebFeb 9: no data from the stationFeb 16: 66 µg/m³, above the limitFeb 23: 51 µg/m³, above the limitMarAprApr 8: no data from the stationApr 9: no data from the stationApr 10: no data from the stationApr 27: no data from the stationApr 28: no data from the stationMayJunJulAugAug 7: no data from the stationAug 8: no data from the stationAug 9: no data from the stationAug 10: no data from the stationAug 30: no data from the stationSepSep 4: no data from the stationSep 6: no data from the stationSep 11: no data from the stationSep 12: no data from the stationSep 13: no data from the stationSep 14: no data from the stationSep 15: no data from the stationSep 16: no data from the stationSep 17: no data from the stationSep 18: no data from the stationSep 19: no data from the stationSep 20: no data from the stationSep 21: no data from the stationSep 22: no data from the stationSep 23: no data from the stationSep 24: no data from the stationOctNovNov 9: no data from the stationDecDec 5: 81 µg/m³, above the limitDec 6: 68 µg/m³, above the limitDec 12: 52 µg/m³, above the limitDec 18: 72 µg/m³, above the limitDec 19: 79 µg/m³, above the limitDec 20: 90 µg/m³, above the limitDec 21: 65 µg/m³, above the limitDec 26: 61 µg/m³, above the limitDec 28: 76 µg/m³, above the limitDec 29: 74 µg/m³, above the limitDec 30: 84 µg/m³, above the limitDec 31: 94 µg/m³, above the limit
  • above the limit
  • below the limit
  • too few readings for the day
  • no data from the station
Days above the limit with values (20)
  1. Jan 1 75
  2. Jan 2 59
  3. Jan 3 72
  4. Jan 4 58
  5. Jan 7 54
  6. Jan 8 73
  7. Feb 16 66
  8. Feb 23 51
  9. Dec 5 81
  10. Dec 6 68
  11. Dec 12 52
  12. Dec 18 72
  13. Dec 19 79
  14. Dec 20 90
  15. Dec 21 65
  16. Dec 26 61
  17. Dec 28 76
  18. Dec 29 74
  19. Dec 30 84
  20. Dec 31 94

Values in µg/m³, limit 50 µg/m³.

Months of 2023

MonthDays above 50Highest dayNo readings
January6 above the number allowed750
February2 above the number allowed661
March0390
April0205
May0180
June0220
July0270
August0215
September01816
October0300
November0381
December12 above the number allowed940

Values in µg/m³. ■ marks a month with at least one day above the limit; the number allowed applies to the whole year. “No readings”: days on which not a single reading came from the station.

There are no readings for this period.

Last 7 days, every hour: PM10 in µg/m³
Last 30 days, daily average: PM10 in µg/m³There are no readings for this period.00.519/99/169/239/30
no data from the station
Last 30 days, daily average: PM10 in µg/m³
Values as a table
Dayµg/m³Note
Tue, 10/6no data from the station
Mon, 10/5no data from the station
Sun, 10/4no data from the station
Sat, 10/3no data from the station
Fri, 10/2no data from the station
Thu, 10/1no data from the station
Wed, 9/30no data from the station
Tue, 9/29no data from the station
Mon, 9/28no data from the station
Sun, 9/27no data from the station
Sat, 9/26no data from the station
Fri, 9/25no data from the station
Thu, 9/24no data from the station
Wed, 9/23no data from the station
Tue, 9/22no data from the station
Mon, 9/21no data from the station
Sun, 9/20no data from the station
Sat, 9/19no data from the station
Fri, 9/18no data from the station
Thu, 9/17no data from the station
Wed, 9/16no data from the station
Tue, 9/15no data from the station
Mon, 9/14no data from the station
Sun, 9/13no data from the station
Sat, 9/12no data from the station
Fri, 9/11no data from the station
Thu, 9/10no data from the station
Wed, 9/9no data from the station
Tue, 9/8no data from the station
Mon, 9/7no data from the station
Last 12 months, monthly average: PM10 in µg/m³There are no readings for this period.0204060DecFebAprJunAugOct
Last 12 monthsa year earlierEU annual limit, 40 µg/m³month with days without data from the station
Last 12 months, monthly average: PM10 in µg/m³
Values as a table
Monthµg/m³a year earlierNote
October 2026 so fartoo few readings9.2year before: same days · 6 days without data from the station
September 2026too few readings11.430 days without data from the station
August 2026too few readings12.331 days without data from the station
July 2026too few readings12.731 days without data from the station
June 2026too few readings14.530 days without data from the station
May 2026too few readings10.131 days without data from the station
April 2026too few readings14.330 days without data from the station
March 2026too few readings24.431 days without data from the station
February 2026too few readings28 days without data from the station
January 2026too few readings31 days without data from the station
December 2025too few readingstoo few readings31 days without data from the station
November 2025too few readingstoo few readingsmeasured in 63 % of hours · provisional · 10 days without data from the station

PM10 by year

Yardstick: EU limits (Directive 2008/50/EC)

Measure202520242023
Days above 50 µg/m³ (allowed 35)≥ 4²≥ 12²≥ 20²
Annual average, µg/m³ (EU limit 40)too few18.1¹too few
Highest daily average, µg/m³66March 7111December 1994December 31
Highest hourly value, µg/m³235August 30177December 19196December 31
Hours measured68 %90 %76 %
Days without any reading from the station1072528

The monitoring networks have not yet finally verified this year’s data. The EEA publishes verified values once a year.

≥ means at least: more than a tenth of the days or hours are missing, so the real number may be higher.

¹ Fewer than 90 % of the hours were measured, so we do not compare this average with the limit.

² Too few readings to compare with the number allowed: the figure covers only what was measured.

Unverified hourly values of particulate matter from 975 µg/m³ up, and single spikes from 500 µg/m³ up between low values, count as missing. In the verified data for BiH from 2023 to 2025 no hour was above 600 µg/m³.

■ and a figure in red: more than is allowed for the whole year.

Compared with the new EU rules and the WHO recommendation

This is not the yardstick for the verdict above, only a comparison. From 2030 the EU tightens its limits (Directive (EU) 2024/2881), and since 2021 the World Health Organization has recommended even lower values.

  • EU from 2030: daily 45 µg/m³, 18 days allowed. In 2023 there were 23 such days.
  • WHO 2021: daily 45 µg/m³, at most three to four days a year. In 2023 there were 23 such days.

Sources: Directive (EU) 2024/2881, Annex I; WHO global air quality guidelines 2021, table 0.1. Checked against the texts on 7 October 2026.

The worst days of 2023

DayAverageTimes the limit
Dec 31, 2023941.9 ×
Dec 20, 2023901.8 ×
Dec 30, 2023841.7 ×
Dec 5, 2023811.6 ×
Dec 19, 2023791.6 ×

Daily average in µg/m³, daily limit 50 µg/m³. Days with the same unverified value over many hours are not on this list.

Outages in the last 12 months

Every period of at least 24 hours in which no reading arrived from this station.

Days without a reading: 322

2 outages, 7,728 hours in total in the last 12 months.

Timeline of outages from October 7, 2025 to today

FromToDuration
Nov 27, 2025 20:00still ongoing314 days
Nov 6, 2025 11:00Nov 14, 2025 09:008 days

Calculated from the hourly values the EEA publishes. If late values arrive afterwards, an outage gets shorter or disappears.

Where the data comes from

Measured by Kosova Environmental Protection Agency ( KEPA). We take the values from the European Environment Agency (EEA) under the CC BY 4.0 licence.

Values marked provisional have not been fully checked by the network yet. The EEA publishes verified data for the previous year once a year, usually by the end of September.

An hourly value is the average of one hour. We show the end of the hour: the value to 18:00 was measured from 17:00 to 18:00.

A day runs from midnight to midnight local time.

We only show an average when at least three out of four hours in the period have a reading. The EU air quality directive requires this for daily averages, and we apply the same rule to longer periods. We compare an annual average with the EU limit only once 90 % of hours are measured, as the directive requires. For 12 months and for a year we ask for more: if less than 90 % of hours are measured, every full calendar month needs readings for at least half of its hours. Otherwise a whole season could be missing from the average, such as summer, when ozone is highest.

We do not call a difference of up to 10 % a change, nor one of up to 1 µg/m³ at low levels, because weather and measurement uncertainty alone cause differences that size.

When a station sends no reading, the EEA sometimes fills the hour with a model estimate. We draw those hours dashed and leave them out of every average.

The EU limits come from Directive 2008/50/EC. Here they serve as a yardstick for comparison. When more than a tenth of the days or hours are missing, the number of exceedances can only be higher, so we write “at least” in front of it.

How we measure

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