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Most polluted cities in Punjab, Pakistan, May 2026
10 cities in Punjab, Pakistan ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Faisalabad at 55.5 µg/m³, #42 of 2,852 cities in the world. Cleanest: Murree at 25.0. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
About 17.9M people in these 9 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of May 2026.
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 9.65M
- 2Faisalabadlow-cost sensors 3.19M
- 3Gujranwalalow-cost sensors 1.86M
- 4Multanlow-cost sensors 1.26M
- 5Rawalpindilow-cost sensors 866K
- 6Sialkotlow-cost sensors 618K
- 7Bahawalpurlow-cost sensors 437K
- 8Kotli Loharanlow-cost sensors 11.1K
- 9Murreelow-cost sensors 5.69K
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, May 2026, smogrank.com/pk/region/punjab/history/2026-05 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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