Madrid Air-Quality Monitoring Network

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Madrid's Integral Air Quality System (Sistema Integral de la Calidad del Aire) runs 24 automatic stations measuring NO2, particulates and ozone across the city, 24/7. Readings update roughly every 20 minutes and are published as open data on datos.madrid.es. The same stations trigger the city's high-pollution episode protocol, whose alert levels impose M-30 traffic bans and 70 km/h speed limits.

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Scale🏙️ City-wide

Sources

↗ Ayuntamiento de Madrid — Sistema integral de calidad del aireOfficial description: surveillance (fixed/mobile stations, control centre), prediction (since 2002) and public information components; links to the NO2/ozone episode protocols.
↗ Portal de datos abiertos de Madrid — Calidad del aire. Datos en tiempo realOpen-data feed; real-time station measurements updated every 20 minutes (minutes 15/35/55).
↗ Ayuntamiento de Madrid — Protocolo para episodios de alta contaminación por NO2Confirms the 24-station network feeds the NO2 episode protocol (PREAVISO/AVISO/ALERTA thresholds) that triggers M-30 traffic restrictions and 70 km/h speed limits.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Madrid Air-Quality Monitoring Network” — Madrid, Spain. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/madrid-air-quality-network/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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