SmogRank / History / City race

Cities, worst air first, day by day

Each measured city's average over the 30 days to every day since January 2023, worst first. Find your own city to follow it through the race, or keep to one country.

CountriesCities
The 7 days to23 Nov 2024 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 23 Nov 2024: Delhi 337.1 µg/m³, Lahore 241.6 µg/m³ and Kolkata 157.6 µg/m³.

  1. 1DelhiIndia337.1
  2. 2LahorePakistan241.6
  3. 3KolkataIndia157.6
  4. 4DhakaBangladesh149.9
  5. 5PeshawarPakistan110.4
  6. 6HyderabadIndia104.9
  7. 7Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina97.9
  8. 8Novi PazarSerbia92.2
  9. 9MumbaiIndia84.0
  10. 10IslamabadPakistan80.4
  11. 11Ulan BatorMongolia79.9
  12. 12N'DjamenaChad76.6
  13. 13KampalaUganda73.5
  14. 14KarachiPakistan71.2
  15. 15UžiceSerbia68.0
  16. 16ChennaiIndia67.3
  17. 17NegotinSerbia67.0
  18. 18ValjevoSerbia66.5
  19. 19CairoEgypt65.2
  20. 20TravnikBosnia and Herzegovina63.8

+ 2,703 more cities, 60.2 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Kinshasa since 22 Nov 2024, Dushanbe since 17 Nov 2024, Shenyang since 20 Oct 2024 and 2 more cities.

30 days7 days
GoodModerateSensitive groupsUnhealthyVery unhealthyHazardousWHO 24-hour guideline, 15 µg/m³Fades where it stood: not counted that day

A city's number is its average over the 30 days, shown only when 21 of them were measured (5 of 7 on the 7-day race), the same minimum as the 30- and 7-day boards. A city whose monitors go quiet fades out where it stood rather than sliding down, so a gap never reads as cleaner air. Some large countries are thin or missing because their monitors' licences don't allow reuse. How we rank.

Not covered: the government monitoring networks of China and Turkey, which publish only on their own websites; we are building the readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.