According to The Portugal News, Faro is the third city in Europe with the cleanest air, after Uppsala and Umea, in Sweden, with Funchal in eighth place, according to a report by the European Environment Agency.
With 3.6 micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter, Faro is in third place in the table, the same value as Umea but with about half the population of the Swedish city.
With 3.6 micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter, Faro is in third place in the table, the same value as Umea but with about half the population of the Swedish city.
Also in Sweden, Uppsala is the European city with the cleanest air: 3.5 micrograms per cubic meter.
Funchal, in the autonomous region of Madeira, occupies eighth place in a list of 372 cities, with 4.4 micrograms of fine particles per cubic metre and Lisbon is 38th, with seven micrograms.
