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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 to15 May 2026 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 15 May 2026: Gurugram 93.5 µg/m³, Jīnd 90.1 µg/m³ and Charkhi Dādri 88.8 µg/m³.

  1. 1GurugramIndia93.5
  2. 2JīndIndia90.1
  3. 3Charkhi DādriIndia88.8
  4. 4NarelaIndia84.7
  5. 5SingrauliIndia80.4
  6. 6NarnaulIndia80.0
  7. 7BawānaIndia75.1
  8. 8KarnālIndia74.8
  9. 9BahadurgarhIndia73.2
  10. 10DispurIndia70.8
  11. 11MuzaffarnagarIndia70.2
  12. 12GobindgarhIndia69.2
  13. 13DādriIndia67.9
  14. 14KaithalIndia67.5
  15. 15MandideepIndia64.7
  16. 16RohtakIndia64.4
  17. 17FaisalabadPakistan62.8
  18. 18FaridabadIndia62.8
  19. 19GhāziābādIndia62.6
  20. 20HanumāngarhIndia62.1

+ 3,071 more cities, the next at 62.0 µg/m³

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Lampang since 10 May 2026, Panipat since 7 May 2026, Loni since 7 May 2026 and 8 more cities.

30 days7 days
GoodModerateUnhealthy for sensitive 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 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.