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Most people breathing unhealthy air in Punjab, Pakistan, July 2025
7 cities in Punjab, Pakistan measured at 2 or more places, ranked by how many people breathed unhealthy air on an average day over the 31 days. The most people breathing unhealthy air: Lahore, Pakistan, about 11.7M on an average day. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
About 20.8M people in these 7 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of July 2025.
Ranked by people: each city's population times its share of unhealthy days, those with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+). That is how many people living there breathed unhealthy air on an average day. Only cities measured at 2 or more places at least 3 km apart are ranked: one monitor shouldn't speak for a whole city. Population is the city itself, not its wider metro area.
- 1Lahorelow-cost sensors 11.7M
- 2Faisalabadlow-cost sensors 3.56M
- 3Gujranwalalow-cost sensors 2.35M
- 4Rawalpindilow-cost sensors 1.41M
- 5Multanlow-cost sensors 1.08M
- 6Sialkotlow-cost sensors 647K
- 7Bahawalpurlow-cost sensors 58.3K
Low-cost sensors: consumer units, counted only in cities with no government-grade monitor; they read close to reference monitors on the whole, but 15 to 25% high in humid air. How we use them.
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
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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Punjab, Pakistan, by people breathing unhealthy air, PM2.5, July 2025, smogrank.com/pk/region/punjab/history/2025-07?by=people (accessed 7 Oct 2026).
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