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Cities in Kazakhstan, 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.
The worst cities in Kazakhstan for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 8 Feb 2026: Otegen Batyra 91.7 µg/m³, Burunday 89.3 µg/m³ and Talghar 80.7 µg/m³.
- 1Otegen BatyraAlmaty Region91.7
- 2BurundayAlmaty Region89.3
- 3TalgharAlmaty Region80.7
- 4AlmatyAlmaty63.1
Cities counted each 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.