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.
The worst cities for PM2.5 over the 7 days to 12 Oct 2026: Kuala Lumpur 103.4 µg/m³, Queenstown Estate 100.9 µg/m³ and Dhaka 89.3 µg/m³.
- 1Kuala LumpurMalaysia103.4
- 2Queenstown EstateSingapore100.9
- 3DhakaBangladesh89.3
- 4SingaporeSingapore87.4
- 5GujranwalaPakistan77.1
- 6KasurPakistan74.8
- 7PeshawarPakistan73.6
- 8MumbaiIndia73.5
- 9FaisalabadPakistan70.6
- 10LahorePakistan67.2
- 11IslamabadPakistan63.6
- 12MultanPakistan62.1
- 13JakartaIndonesia61.1
- 14JammuIndia58.9
- 15Rahim Yar KhanPakistan58.6
- 16RawalpindiPakistan57.1
- 17LilongweMalawi55.4
- 18HanoiVietnam54.9
- 19eManzimtotiSouth Africa54.0
- 20SialkotPakistan53.4
+ 2,913 more cities, the next at 47.4 µg/m³
Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Alipur since 11 Oct 2026, Delhi since 11 Oct 2026, Thānesar since 10 Oct 2026 and 40 more cities.
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 reader for China's network. Turkey's network doesn't answer requests from outside the country, so we can't read it. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.