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 to8 Sep 2026 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 8 Sep 2026: Palembang 150.3 µg/m³, Kinshasa 80.9 µg/m³ and Blantyre 79.7 µg/m³.

  1. 1PalembangIndonesia150.3
  2. 2KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo80.9
  3. 3BlantyreMalawi79.7
  4. 4LilongweMalawi77.8
  5. 5CoyhaiqueChile77.0
  6. 6Kuala LumpurMalaysia76.8
  7. 7BhāgalpurIndia72.9
  8. 8ZombaMalawi70.4
  9. 9NeelankaraiIndia65.0
  10. 10KampalaUganda62.1
  11. 11GujranwalaPakistan61.1
  12. 12PanipatIndia59.3
  13. 13Puerto MonttChile57.1
  14. 14Puerto VarasChile56.9
  15. 15GummidipundiIndia56.8
  16. 16JīndIndia56.4
  17. 17DispurIndia52.5
  18. 18PithampurIndia51.6
  19. 19BawānaIndia51.5
  20. 20PeshawarPakistan50.6

+ 3,136 more cities, 50.1 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Kannur since 8 Sep 2026, Fatehābād since 7 Sep 2026, Chāpra since 7 Sep 2026 and 8 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.