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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 to22 Apr 2026 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 22 Apr 2026: Chiang Khong 150.4 µg/m³, Ban Houakhoua 150.4 µg/m³ and Mae Sai 137.4 µg/m³.

  1. 1Chiang KhongThailand150.4
  2. 2Ban HouakhouaLaos150.4
  3. 3Mae SaiThailand137.4
  4. 4PhayaoThailand118.0
  5. 5GurugramIndia116.0
  6. 6Bueng KanThailand110.7
  7. 7PakxanLaos110.7
  8. 8NanThailand109.4
  9. 9Chiang RaiThailand103.9
  10. 10VientianeLaos103.4
  11. 11LoniIndia101.5
  12. 12LampangThailand93.3
  13. 13LamphunThailand91.5
  14. 14Charkhi DādriIndia89.8
  15. 15PhraeThailand88.7
  16. 16BawānaIndia87.5
  17. 17NarelaIndia83.3
  18. 18DādriIndia82.6
  19. 19SiddharthanagarNepal79.6
  20. 20FaridabadIndia79.4

+ 3,065 more cities, 79.2 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Bishkek since 13 Apr 2026, Lebedinovka since 10 Apr 2026, Kojomkul since 5 Apr 2026 and Rahim Yar Khan since 28 Mar 2026.

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.