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DR Congo

OpenAQ's stations in DR Congo: which report, which have stopped or restarted, and what they measure.

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Stations
15
9 reported within 30 days
Inactive
6
Silent for over 30 days
Restarted
10
Back after 30+ silent days
Daily readings
12,313
Since Jun 2022

Stations over time

When stations started, how many reported, and when they went quiet.

Stations by year

2022 to 2026
ReportingStartedStopped
Stopped counts a station in the year of its last reading, if it is now inactive or removed.

Stations reporting each month

Jun 2022 to Sept 2026
Stations with a reading
A drop is a station going quiet or a network outage; a rise is new or restarted stations.

Readings

Monthly averages of every parameter with daily data, in the units OpenAQ reports.

PM2.5 · monthly average

µg/m³ · 15 stations · Jun 2022 to Sep 2026
All daysFull daysMost days partial or flagged
The solid line averages every day OpenAQ published, as the mean of station monthly means; the dashed line averages full days only: at least 18 of 24 hours reported, not flagged by the provider, not negative. Averages across stations are not national figures or health-standard comparisons.

Latest months (12)

PM2.5 (µg/m³)
MonthAveragePartial or flagged
Sept 202680.348%
Aug 202681.252%
Jul 202690.157%
Jun 202686.344%
May 202658.556%
Apr 202640.482%
Mar 202650.295%
Feb 202641.295%
Jan 202644.894%
Dec 202547.587%
Nov 202538.5100%
Oct 202566.191%

Partial or flagged: the share of the month's station-days with fewer than 18 of 24 hours reported, flagged by the provider, or negative. Across DR Congo's 12,313 daily readings, 71% are partial.

Stations

When each station reported, and which have gone quiet.

Station timelines

15 stations · Jun 2022 to 26 Sep 2026
Most daysSome daysNo readingsBlank before a station's first reading
Opens on the latest month; scroll back for earlier years. A cell counts the days with at least one daily reading. A station stays on the grid after it stops; silence is not proof of closure.

Inactive and removed (6)

Stations that have gone quiet, most recent first
StationLast reading
KINAQ UPN1 Aug 2026
KINAQ Gare Centrale11 Jun 2026
WASARU9 May 2026
KINAQ Huilleries29 Apr 2026
KINAQ Cité Verte9 Apr 2026
Kinshasa17 Feb 2025

Silence is not proof of closure: a station can restart, and OpenAQ can return it again.

Readings quality

Across 12,313 daily readings
Partial days
8,717
Flagged by provider
0
Negative values
0
No value
0

A partial day has fewer than 18 of its 24 hours reported; a day can be partial and flagged at once, so these overlap. Every station here carries a license in OpenAQ's records.

OpenAQ API v3 · daily data through 26 Sept 2026 · openaq-20260927

Data from OpenAQ and each station’s provider, under the license shown for it