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Most polluted cities in Punjab, Pakistan, 2025
1 city in Punjab, Pakistan ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 365 days; 1 above the WHO annual guideline (5.0 µg/m³). The only one: Lahore at 132.3 µg/m³, #1 of 2,624 cities in the world. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
Punjab has 9 cities ranked over the last 30 days, but only 1 here: most of its monitors have no readings for 2025 in OpenAQ's archive, where ours come from, or too few to rank. Cities missing from this board weren't clean, just not measured.
About 11.8M people in this city breathed unhealthy air on an average day of 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 11.8M
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, PM2.5, 2025, smogrank.com/pk/region/punjab/history/2025 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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