Chisinau - Post Report Question and Answers
What is the air quality like at post (good/moderate/bad)? Are there seasonal air quality issues? Does the air quality have an impact on health?
Air is generally good. It helps that it can rain any time of the year. Old cars and buses will create yucky exhaust sometimes. - Sep 2023
Air quality is okay to good. Summers can be long, hot and dry, so a bit dusty. - Apr 2019
Very good air quality. - Feb 2014
Spring can bring some amazing pollen storms from the poplar trees: it looks like it's snowing with giant white cotton puffs in the air. There is also the more traditional yellowish pollen, which lightly coats every possible surface for at least a solid month. Most people I know experience allergies in the spring...I've even had a light touch of them, and I never have before. But the bigger problem is the large percentage of Moldovans who smoke like chimneys, despite the large bold warning lables on every pack of cigarettes ("Smoking kills," etc.). Bring your supply of Febreeze, because even in the spring when you are eating at an outdoor restaurant, you'll go home smelling like other people's cigarettes. In the winter, it's a real treat to find restaurants where you're not walking into excessively smoky quarters. - Aug 2011
The air quality seems to be very good. I do notice that a number of people (including myself) have allergy issues here. - May 2010
Excellent. - Mar 2010
