SmogRank / Kazakhstan / Almaty / Almaty
Almaty, month by month
Almaty has a measured daily mean on 1,260 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was January 2023, at 171 US AQI (84.0 µg/m³), 12th of 1,261 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was June 2026, at 37 US AQI (6.7 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 86 US AQI (27.9 µg/m³), against 79 US AQI (24.1 µg/m³) in 2024.
Every month since 2023
The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales
Months without a mean, and why
4 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 17 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 14 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Nov 2025 | 13 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 17 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2023 | 9 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 19 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 3 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2023 | 2 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 1 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Almaty's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | 17184.0 µg/m³ | 12thof 1,261 |
| February 2025 | 16574.8 µg/m³ | 12thof 2,633 |
| January 2026 | 16068.0 µg/m³ | 28thof 2,617 |
| January 2024 | 14854.5 µg/m³ | 27thof 2,385 |
| January 2025 | 13951.1 µg/m³ | 33rdof 2,474 |
| December 2024 | 13950.9 µg/m³ | 24thof 2,616 |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Almaty's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 28 Jan 2023 | 257182.0 µg/m³ |
| 18 Jan 2023 | 244169.0 µg/m³ |
| 19 Jan 2023 | 228153.0 µg/m³ |
| 30 Jan 2023 | 226151.0 µg/m³ |
| 29 Dec 2025 | 226150.5 µg/m³ |
| 17 Dec 2023 | 220145.0 µg/m³ |
| 19 Jan 2026 | 216140.5 µg/m³ |
| 20 Jan 2023 | 213138.0 µg/m³ |
| 27 Jan 2023 | 210135.0 µg/m³ |
| 16 Dec 2023 | 205130.0 µg/m³ |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1 Jan 2023 – 12 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirGradient via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/kz/almaty/history (accessed 13 Oct 2026).
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Almaty now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-13 03:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).