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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 30 days to6 Oct 2026 That day's board

The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 6 Oct 2026: Gujranwala 81.5 µg/m³, Kinshasa 78.5 µg/m³ and Gurugram 71.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1GujranwalaPakistan81.5
  2. 2KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo78.5
  3. 3GurugramIndia71.3
  4. 4GobindgarhIndia71.0
  5. 5JīndIndia70.7
  6. 6Kuala LumpurMalaysia69.1
  7. 7PeshawarPakistan65.6
  8. 8LahorePakistan65.3
  9. 9Yamuna NagarIndia63.2
  10. 10FaisalabadPakistan61.8
  11. 11MānesarIndia61.7
  12. 12MultanPakistan60.8
  13. 13JammuIndia60.5
  14. 14DhakaBangladesh59.1
  15. 15Saint-LouisSenegal59.1
  16. 16Dera MāndiIndia58.7
  17. 17SialkotPakistan58.1
  18. 18LilongweMalawi55.9
  19. 19PithampurIndia55.8
  20. 20BlantyreMalawi55.5

+ 2,982 more cities, 54.9 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Dhāruhera since 6 Oct 2026, Panipat since 5 Oct 2026, Loni since 5 Oct 2026 and 4 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.