SmogRank / Pakistan / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Air quality in Peshawar

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

119.2 µg/m³

Unhealthy

Latest hour (04:00 UTC), 7.9× the WHO 24-hour guideline.

Rank

24 h

–

not enough data

7 days

of 2,330 · 73.6 µg/m³

30 days

#10

of 2,327 · 60.4 µg/m³

Year

#10

of 2,160 · 67.3 µg/m³

Why it ranks here

Chronic pollution. Its typical day over the past year was 57.2 µg/m³, 3.8× 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 December, averaging up to 255.3 µg/m³ against 35.3 in its cleanest month. Seasonal peaks usually come from heating, crop burning, fire or dust seasons.

Based on Peshawar'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
Abasyn UniversityCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Small industrial development board(SIDB)CC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Shaheed Benazir Women UniversityCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
NIUIPCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
WWF Office CC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Directorate General Local Gov CC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Khyber Medical University CC BY 4.0	AirGradient	Low-cost
Ashrafia ColonyCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
EPA OfficeCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Urban Policy UnitCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
Gandhara UniversityCC BY 4.0	The Urban Unit	Low-cost
WWF-Pakistan Peshawar Regional OfficeCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Peshawar A HayatabadCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
WWF OfficeCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Shaheed Benazir Women UniversityCC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	Low-cost
Small industrial development board(SIDB)CC BY 4.0	Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)	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 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.