The loudest cities in Luxembourg, ranked by noise exposure

Luxembourg's 2 ranked agglomerations house 381,116 residents. Loudest first, by exposed-resident day-evening-night (Lden) level: Luxembourg_south (55–75 dB), Luxembourg (55–75 dB) — down to Luxembourg at 55–75 dB. The median city centres near Lden 65 dB. Road traffic is the dominant source in all 2. The most populous, Luxembourg at 200,667 residents, ranks #89 across Europe with exposed-resident Lden of 55–75 dB. The WHO road-traffic guideline is 53 dB Lden by day and 45 dB Lnight at night, which most of these Luxembourg cities exceed for their noise-exposed residents.

These are measured values, not estimates — strategic noise maps reported under the EU Environmental Noise Directive (2022 round), harmonised by the European Environment Agency, covering road, rail, aircraft and industry. Lnight, the night-time figure, is the level most closely tied to sleep disturbance, which is why the EU reports it separately from the daytime Lden. Open any Luxembourg city below for its full figures, then measure your own street with the free live meter.

Which Luxembourg cities are the noisiest?

By this EEA data the noisiest Luxembourg cities are the same as the loudest, since "noisiest" here means measured road, rail, aircraft and industrial exposure: Luxembourg_south, Luxembourg top the list, led by Luxembourg_south at Lden 55–75 dB (road traffic). The full ranking is in the table above.

Luxembourg noise: the numbers

• 2 Luxembourg agglomerations are in the measured European ranking — 22nd-most of any country here.
• Loudest: Luxembourg_south at exposed-resident Lden 55–75 dB (European #40).
• Quietest ranked: Luxembourg at Lden 55–75 dB; median near Lden 65 dB.
• Road traffic is the dominant source in 2 of the 2.
• Combined population of the 2: 381,116.