SmogRank / Tajikistan / Dushanbe / Dushanbe
Dushanbe, month by month
Dushanbe has a measured daily mean on 1,179 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was January 2023, at 202 US AQI (126.6 µg/m³), 6th of 1,261 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was April 2024, at 69 US AQI (18.9 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 159 US AQI (66.6 µg/m³), against 131 US AQI (47.5 µg/m³) in 2024.
Every month since 2023
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
Months without a mean, and why
6 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| May 2026 | 2 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 29 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Apr 2026 | No day measured. The others: 30 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2026 | 13 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 18 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Nov 2024 | 18 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 12 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2023 | 10 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 1 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2023 | 3 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Dushanbe's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | 202126.6 µg/m³ | 6thof 1,261 |
| December 2024 | 197121.8 µg/m³ | 6thof 2,616 |
| January 2025 | 191112.4 µg/m³ | 7thof 2,474 |
| November 2025 | 187106.5 µg/m³ | 40thof 2,715 |
| January 2026 | 18096.8 µg/m³ | 12thof 2,617 |
| December 2023 | 16879.1 µg/m³ | 16thof 2,247 |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Dushanbe's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 17 Dec 2024 | 500+357.0 µg/m³ |
| 15 Apr 2023 | 500+332.0 µg/m³ |
| 1 Nov 2025 | 477314.0 µg/m³ |
| 21 Jan 2023 | 431291.0 µg/m³ |
| 11 Jan 2025 | 388269.0 µg/m³ |
| 20 Jan 2023 | 377263.5 µg/m³ |
| 21 Feb 2026 | 360255.0 µg/m³ |
| 23 Jan 2023 | 350250.0 µg/m³ |
| 24 Dec 2024 | 346248.0 µg/m³ |
| 15 Jul 2023 | 336243.0 µg/m³ |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 1 Jan 2023 – 12 Oct 2026. Monitor data from AirNow, via OpenAQ and from the publisher directly; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/tj/dushanbe/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Dushanbe now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).