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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 to17 May 2026 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 17 May 2026: Panipat 103.8 µg/m³, Charkhi Dādri 97.0 µg/m³ and Gurugram 93.9 µg/m³.

  1. 1PanipatIndia103.8
  2. 2Charkhi DādriIndia97.0
  3. 3GurugramIndia93.9
  4. 4LinaresChile84.1
  5. 5DispurIndia82.3
  6. 6MuzaffarnagarIndia76.6
  7. 7NarelaIndia76.3
  8. 8MānesarIndia76.1
  9. 9MandideepIndia75.0
  10. 10JīndIndia74.1
  11. 11HājīpurIndia72.9
  12. 12KarnālIndia72.2
  13. 13Dera MāndiIndia72.1
  14. 14Yamuna NagarIndia71.2
  15. 15SingrauliIndia70.9
  16. 16BahadurgarhIndia70.5
  17. 17FaridabadIndia70.0
  18. 18KarauliIndia69.6
  19. 19DhāruheraIndia68.6
  20. 20BhiwadiIndia68.6

+ 2,995 more cities, 68.0 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Loni since 17 May 2026, Gobindgarh since 17 May 2026, Hāpur since 30 Apr 2026 and Kojomkul since 25 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.