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Cities in Pakistan, 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 in Pakistan for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 7 Aug 2026: Faisalabad 51.0 µg/m³, Gujranwala 48.5 µg/m³ and Lahore 47.3 µg/m³.
- 1FaisalabadPunjab51.0
- 2GujranwalaPunjab48.5
- 3LahorePunjab47.3
- 4QuettaBalochistan44.2
- 5MultanPunjab40.0
- 6PeshawarKhyber Pakhtunkhwa35.9
- 7SialkotPunjab35.6
- 8HyderabadSindh28.5
- 9KarachiSindh28.2
- 10BahawalpurPunjab28.1
- 11IslamabadIslamabad27.4
- 12RawalpindiPunjab26.8
- 13MurreePunjab26.8
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Rahim Yar Khan since 16 Jul 2026 and Kotli Loharan since 16 Jul 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 readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.