SmogRank / Pakistan / Punjab

Air quality in Gujranwala

Punjab, Pakistan. PM2.5 from 19 low-cost sensors, updated hourly.

230.9 µg/m³

Hazardous

Latest hour (04:00 UTC), 15.4× the WHO 24-hour guideline.

Rank

24 h

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not enough data

7 days

of 2,330 · 77.2 µg/m³

30 days

of 2,327 · 68.5 µg/m³

Year

of 2,160 · 76.6 µg/m³

Why it ranks here

Chronic pollution. Its typical day over the past year was 68.1 µg/m³, 4.5× 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 November, December, averaging up to 256.1 µg/m³ against 39.0 in its cleanest month. Seasonal peaks usually come from heating, crop burning, fire or dust seasons.

Based on Gujranwala'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

364 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
Elite college management science satellite townCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Gift UniversityCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
PHA , Gulshan Iqbal ParkCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Wasa office Model TownCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Bureau Of Statistics, PunjabCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
GDA OFFICECC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
WASA Head Office GrwCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Commisioner OfficeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Dc Office CC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Allama Iqbal Open University GrwCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
IAS GrwCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
university of punjab grwCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
MC Office GrwCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Gujranwala SFLCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
university of punjab grwCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
IAS GrwCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Gift UniversityCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Gujranwala Cantt BCC BY 4.0	OpenAQ admin	Low-cost
TCS GujrawalaCC 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

Peshawar 60.4 Lahore 60.4 Multan 55.6 Faisalabad 54.6 Sialkot 50.3 Rahim Yar Khan 46.7 Rawalpindi 41.1 Bahawalpur 40.9 Alipur 39.7 Islamabad 37.0 Murree 32.4 Karachi 26.9

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

Updated 2026-10-01 05:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 in µg/m³ (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors.