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.

CountriesCities
The 7 days to23 Jun 2026 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 23 Jun 2026: Sonīpat 122.7 µg/m³, Gurugram 104.8 µg/m³ and Panipat 92.0 µg/m³.

  1. 1SonīpatIndia122.7
  2. 2GurugramIndia104.8
  3. 3PanipatIndia92.0
  4. 4NacimientoChile86.7
  5. 5CuranilahueChile82.1
  6. 6VillarricaChile75.4
  7. 7BahadurgarhIndia73.7
  8. 8KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo73.7
  9. 9JīndIndia73.1
  10. 10LajaChile71.4
  11. 11OsornoChile71.3
  12. 12Puerto VarasChile71.1
  13. 13MānesarIndia70.9
  14. 14HisarIndia68.9
  15. 15ValdiviaChile68.1
  16. 16BhiwāniIndia66.8
  17. 17HualpénChile66.8
  18. 18Charkhi DādriIndia66.1
  19. 19CoyhaiqueChile65.0
  20. 20FaridabadIndia64.7

+ 2,809 more cities, 64.3 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Thānesar since 23 Jun 2026, Hājīpur since 20 Jun 2026, Ropar since 19 Jun 2026 and 2 more cities.

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.