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Most polluted cities in Punjab, Pakistan, 2026
8 cities in Punjab, Pakistan ranked by their average PM2.5 so far (278 of 365 days); 8 above the WHO annual guideline (5.0 µg/m³). Worst: Faisalabad at 86.2 µg/m³, #2 of 2,745 cities in the world. Cleanest: Murree at 28.2. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
About 21.1M people in these 8 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of 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 11.2M
- 2Faisalabadlow-cost sensors 3.42M
- 3Gujranwalalow-cost sensors 2.1M
- 4Rawalpindilow-cost sensors 1.75M
- 5Multanlow-cost sensors 1.5M
- 6Sialkotlow-cost sensors 659K
- 7Bahawalpurlow-cost sensors 504K
- 8Murreelow-cost sensors 8.13K
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, 2026 (so far), smogrank.com/pk/region/punjab/history/2026 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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