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.
The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 16 Mar 2026: Gurugram 166.8 µg/m³, Dhaka 152.4 µg/m³ and Siddharthanagar 152.3 µg/m³.
- 1GurugramIndia166.8
- 2DhakaBangladesh152.4
- 3SiddharthanagarNepal152.3
- 4GujranwalaPakistan140.7
- 5Rahim Yar KhanPakistan139.9
- 6FaisalabadPakistan138.6
- 7LoniIndia126.9
- 8LahorePakistan120.2
- 9BawānaIndia112.1
- 10Dera MāndiIndia110.7
- 11BhiwadiIndia109.9
- 12SialkotPakistan109.0
- 13MānesarIndia108.1
- 14MandideepIndia106.9
- 15DādriIndia104.9
- 16KojomkulKyrgyzstan104.0
- 17DhāruheraIndia100.8
- 18MultanPakistan98.6
- 19JammuIndia96.9
- 20BahawalpurPakistan96.8
+ 3,111 more cities, the next at 93.5 µg/m³
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Singrauli since 13 Mar 2026, Naharlagun since 9 Mar 2026, Bahadurgarh since 23 Feb 2026 and Tumkūr since 20 Feb 2026.
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 reader for China's network. Turkey's network doesn't answer requests from outside the country, so we can't read it. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.