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France Air Quality
Annual air quality measurements from Atmo France regional networks and Airparif (Paris). Covers NO₂, ozone exceedance days, and PM2.5 for all 13 metropolitan regions from 2004 to 2024. Includes EU legal limits and WHO guidelines as benchmarks.
Source
Atmo France / Airparif — French regional air quality networks
Frequency
Annual
Coverage
2004 → 2024, 13 metropolitan regions
Columns
7
Stories
Dataset quality · 5 good · 2 fair · 0 poor
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Schema walkthrough, column quality analysis, null rates and consistency scores.
2023 · France
The Air We Breathe
No French region meets WHO air quality guidelines. The gap between EU legal limits and safe air is larger than it looks.
2004 – 2024 · France
The Lockdown Experiment
Paris NO₂ fell 29% in 2020 — equivalent to 10 years of normal progress. The largest unplanned air quality experiment in history.
Schema
temporal
yearinteger
Calendar year
geography
region_codestring
INSEE region code (13 metropolitan regions)
pollutants
no2_meanfloat
Annual mean NO₂ concentration (µg/m³) — network station average
o3_daysinteger
Days per year exceeding 120 µg/m³ ozone threshold (8h mean)
pm25_meanfloat
Annual mean PM2.5 concentration (µg/m³) — fine particle matter
benchmarks
no2_vs_2015float
NO₂ % change vs 2015 baseline — tracks EU Clean Air Directive progress
eu_exceedanceboolean
Whether the region exceeded EU legal limits in any monitoring station
Source
Atmo France / Airparif — French regional air quality networks ↗