SmogRank / Pakistan / Punjab / Lahore
Lahore, month by month
Lahore has a measured daily mean on 1,153 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was November 2024, at 500+ US AQI (328.7 µg/m³), 1st of 2,624 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was August 2025, at 116 US AQI (41.7 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 208 US AQI (132.3 µg/m³), against 220 US AQI (144.7 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
9 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| May 2025 | 5 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 26 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2025 | 18 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 10 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2024 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2024 | 18 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 12 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2024 | 17 of 29 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 1 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 11 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2023 | 12 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 19 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Feb 2023 | 3 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Lahore's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| November 2024 | 500+328.7 µg/m³ | 1stof 2,624 |
| December 2023 | 408279.4 µg/m³ | 1stof 2,247 |
| January 2024 | 358254.3 µg/m³ | 2ndof 2,385 |
| November 2023 | 352251.1 µg/m³ | 1stof 2,243 |
| December 2025 | 328239.1 µg/m³ | 8thof 3,006 |
| January 2025 | 318234.2 µg/m³ | 1stof 2,474 |
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.
Lahore's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 14 Nov 2024 | 500+630.0 µg/m³ |
| 3 Jan 2025 | 500+573.0 µg/m³ |
| 6 Nov 2024 | 500+570.0 µg/m³ |
| 7 Nov 2024 | 500+519.0 µg/m³ |
| 8 Nov 2024 | 500+505.0 µg/m³ |
| 22 Dec 2023 | 500+488.0 µg/m³ |
| 24 Dec 2023 | 500+480.0 µg/m³ |
| 11 Nov 2024 | 500+479.0 µg/m³ |
| 15 Nov 2024 | 500+474.0 µg/m³ |
| 4 Jan 2023 | 500+452.0 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, Lahore, Pakistan, 1 Jan 2023 – 12 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirGradient and Hawanama via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/pk/lahore/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Lahore now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 21:07 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).