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The aim of this study was to quantify the associations between personal nitrogen oxides (NO<jats:sub><jats:italic>x<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>), ozone (O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>) and particulate matter (PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub>) exposure levels and ambient levels, and the impact of climate and time spent outdoors in two cities in Sweden. Subjects (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200965) from two Swedish cities participated in the study. The study protocol included personal exposure measurements at three occasions, or waves. Personal exposure measurements were performed for NO<jats:sub><jats:italic>x<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub> and O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub> for 24\u00a0h and PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub> for 24\u00a0h, and the participants kept an activity diary. Stationary monitoring stations provided hourly data of NO<jats:sub><jats:italic>x<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>, O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub> and PM, as well as data on air temperature and relative humidity. Data were analysed using mixed linear models with the subject-id as a random effect and stationary exposure and covariates as fixed effects. Personal exposure levels of NO<jats:sub><jats:italic>x<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>, O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub> and PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub> were significantly associated with levels measured at air pollution monitoring stations. The associations persisted after adjusting for temperature, relative humidity, city and wave, but the modelled estimates were slightly attenuated from 2.4% (95% CI 1.8\u20132.9) to 2.0% (0.97\u20132.94%) for NO<jats:sub><jats:italic>x<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>, from 3.7% (95% CI 3.1\u20134.4) to 2.1% (95% CI 1.1\u20132.9%) for O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub> and from 2.6% (95% 0.9\u20134.2%) to 1.3% (95% CI\u2009\u2212\u20091.5\u20134.0) for PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub>. After adding covariates, the degree of explanation offered by the model (coefficient of determination, or <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>) did not change for NO<jats:sub><jats:italic>x<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub> (0.64 to 0.63) but increased from 0.46 to 0.63 for O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>, and from 0.38 to 0.43 for PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub>. Personal exposure to NO<jats:sub><jats:italic>x<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>, O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub> and PM has moderate to good association with levels measured at urban background sites. The results indicate that stationary measurements are valid as measure of exposure in environmental health risk assessments, especially if they can be refined using activity diaries and meteorological data. 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