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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 30 days to24 Sep 2025 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 24 Sep 2025: Gummidipundi 75.5 µg/m³, Cuddalore 71.2 µg/m³ and Aurangābād 69.7 µg/m³.

  1. 1GummidipundiIndia75.5
  2. 2CuddaloreIndia71.2
  3. 3AurangābādIndia69.7
  4. 4MothīhāriIndia57.5
  5. 5FaisalabadPakistan57.4
  6. 6GujranwalaPakistan55.4
  7. 7CoyhaiqueChile54.7
  8. 8KigaliRwanda52.5
  9. 9Bihār SharīfIndia52.1
  10. 10Puerto VarasChile52.0
  11. 11NacimientoChile51.8
  12. 12Santa MaríaPeru51.4
  13. 13KanchipuramIndia49.4
  14. 14DushanbeTajikistan49.3
  15. 15PeshawarPakistan48.7
  16. 16RasapūdipalemIndia48.1
  17. 17SamāstipurIndia46.9
  18. 18OsornoChile46.9
  19. 19MultanPakistan46.1
  20. 20ChāpraIndia45.1

+ 3,166 more cities, 44.6 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Alangad since 23 Sep 2025, Ooty since 20 Sep 2025, Chittoor since 17 Sep 2025 and 5 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.