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 to19 Sep 2026 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 19 Sep 2026: Kuala Lumpur 96.3 µg/m³, Panipat 91.2 µg/m³ and Blantyre 87.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1Kuala LumpurMalaysia96.3
  2. 2PanipatIndia91.2
  3. 3BlantyreMalawi87.3
  4. 4Saint-LouisSenegal75.1
  5. 5KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo73.3
  6. 6GobindgarhIndia69.5
  7. 7LilongweMalawi68.3
  8. 8JīndIndia67.0
  9. 9BhiwadiIndia65.0
  10. 10ZombaMalawi61.3
  11. 11MānesarIndia59.2
  12. 12DhakaBangladesh58.9
  13. 13NoidaIndia58.5
  14. 14GujranwalaPakistan58.3
  15. 15Yamuna NagarIndia58.0
  16. 16HarareZimbabwe56.2
  17. 17PeshawarPakistan55.3
  18. 18KampalaUganda54.8
  19. 19Dera MāndiIndia54.7
  20. 20Queenstown EstateSingapore53.9

+ 2,938 more cities, 53.1 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: eManzimtoti since 16 Sep 2026, Dispur since 14 Sep 2026, Gummidipundi since 12 Sep 2026 and 10 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.