SmogRank / Pakistan / Punjab

Air quality in Bahawalpur

Punjab, Pakistan. PM2.5 from 16 low-cost sensors, updated hourly.

28.5 µg/m³

Moderate

Latest hour (10:00 UTC), 1.9× the WHO 24-hour guideline.

Rank

24 h

–

not enough data

7 days

#15

of 2,333 · 58.2 µg/m³

30 days

#35

of 2,331 · 40.9 µg/m³

Year

#19

of 2,173 · 62.6 µg/m³

Why it ranks here

Chronic pollution. Its typical day over the past year was 54.1 µg/m³, 3.6× the WHO 24-hour guideline, so it ranks high most of the time, not only during events.

Seasonal. Over the past year its worst months were January, November, December, averaging up to 201.8 µg/m³ against 23.4 in its cleanest month. Seasonal peaks usually come from heating, crop burning, fire or dust seasons.

Based on Bahawalpur's own measurements; causes are the usual kinds for a pattern like this, not a confirmed source.

Last 4 days, hour by hour

Times in UTC. Dashed line: WHO 24-hour guideline (15 µg/m³).

Every day for a year

Good 0–9.0Moderate 9.1+Unhealthy for sensitive groups 35.5+Unhealthy 55.5+Very unhealthy 125.5+Hazardous 225.5+No data

359 of 364 measured days were over the WHO 24-hour guideline.

Daily world rank

Rank on each day's board (1 = most polluted city that day).

2026 against 2025, month by month

Faded bars: 2025. A month shows once it has 10 measured days.

This week against past years

Mean PM2.5 for 24 Sept to 30 Sept in each year. Dashed line: WHO 24-hour guideline.

Monitors

Station	Operator	Type
PHA BahawalpurCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Commissioner OfficeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
District council OfficeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Wheat Section RARI officeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Forest OfficeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
DD office of Forest DepartmentCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Excise and Taxation OfficeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Public health engineering departmentCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Municipal OfficeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Punjab Small Industries CorporationCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Yousaf Garden near Qatalmara RoadCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Yousaf Garden near Qatalmara RoadCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Commissioner OfficeCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
DD office of Forest DepartmentCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Public health engineering departmentCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Bahawalpur BCC BY 4.0	OpenAQ admin	Low-cost

No reference monitor here, so the value is the median of low-cost sensors (at least two reporting each hour). Low-cost sensors can read high in humid air. Data via OpenAQ; licences as listed. How we rank. Embed this on your site.

Other cities in Pakistan

Gujranwala 68.5 Peshawar 60.4 Lahore 60.4 Multan 55.6 Faisalabad 54.6 Sialkot 50.3 Rahim Yar Khan 46.7 Rawalpindi 41.1 Alipur 39.7 Islamabad 37.0 Murree 32.4 Karachi 26.9

30-day averages, µg/m³. All of Pakistan →

Updated 2026-10-01 12:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 in µg/m³ (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors.