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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 7 days to8 Nov 2025 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 8 Nov 2025: Multan 251.4 µg/m³, Bawāna 247.3 µg/m³ and Narela 236.0 µg/m³.

  1. 1MultanPakistan251.4
  2. 2BawānaIndia247.3
  3. 3NarelaIndia236.0
  4. 4LoniIndia221.2
  5. 5GujranwalaPakistan195.9
  6. 6FaisalabadPakistan193.6
  7. 7LahorePakistan188.3
  8. 8SiddharthanagarNepal187.0
  9. 9DelhiIndia175.5
  10. 10MeerutIndia173.0
  11. 11HāpurIndia172.1
  12. 12JīndIndia170.5
  13. 13NoidaIndia166.7
  14. 14PanipatIndia159.6
  15. 15GhāziābādIndia157.3
  16. 16BāghpatIndia152.4
  17. 17Greater NoidaIndia149.6
  18. 18DādriIndia148.9
  19. 19Aya NagarIndia146.0
  20. 20SonīpatIndia145.2

+ 2,893 more cities, 144.7 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Najafgarh since 4 Nov 2025, Nagapattinam since 4 Nov 2025, Fatehābād since 28 Oct 2025 and 4 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.