Live cleanest global major city ranking
The hourly major city ranking compares AQI⁺ values for more than 100 global cities. Click to learn more.

2025

World Air Quality Report

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AQI⁺ US legend

0-50Good

51-100Moderate

101-150Unhealthy for sensitive groups

151-200Unhealthy

201-300Very unhealthy

301+Hazardous

Rank	Major city, country/region	AQI⁺ US	Followers
1	Auckland, New Zealand	6	254.2K followers
2	Yangon, Myanmar	11	230.8K followers
3	Montreal, Canada	13	348.9K followers
4	Toronto, Canada	15	1.1M followers
5	Salt Lake City, USA	16	264.5K followers
6	Detroit, USA	16	76.1K followers
7	Chiang Mai, Thailand	17	16M followers
8	Dublin, Ireland	17	123.7K followers
9	Rome, Italy	17	427.3K followers
10	Bogota, Colombia	17	144.7K followers
11	Houston, USA	19	134.2K followers
12	Melbourne, Australia	21	857.2K followers
13	San Francisco, USA	23	1.1M followers
14	New York, USA	23	2.5M followers
15	Canberra, Australia	23	496.4K followers
16	Lyon, France	24	701.2K followers
17	Sydney, Australia	25	1.9M followers
18	Denver, USA	25	2M followers
19	Helsinki, Finland	26	222.1K followers
20	Copenhagen, Denmark	26	206.4K followers
21	Chicago, USA	27	223.8K followers
22	Bangkok, Thailand	28	17.2M followers
23	Tokyo, Japan	28	1.7M followers
24	Vienna, Austria	28	483.5K followers
25	Bern, Switzerland	28	220.1K followers
26	Minneapolis, USA	29	93.6K followers
27	Washington D.C., USA	29	178K followers
28	Birmingham, United Kingdom	30	365.2K followers
29	Ljubljana, Slovenia	31	206K followers
30	Zagreb, Croatia	31	271.1K followers
31	Munich, Germany	32	696K followers
32	Seattle, USA	33	784.2K followers
33	London, United Kingdom	33	1.2M followers
34	Madrid, Spain	33	775K followers
35	Barcelona, Spain	33	619.1K followers
36	Berlin, Germany	33	855.8K followers
37	Phnom Penh, Cambodia	33	1.1M followers
38	Budapest, Hungary	33	161.6K followers
39	Wrocław, Poland	33	443.1K followers
40	Nice, France	33	598.8K followers
41	Stockholm, Sweden	34	250.7K followers
42	Chongqing, China	35	505K followers
43	Warsaw, Poland	35	815.7K followers
44	Oslo, Norway	35	192.7K followers
45	Mexico City, Mexico	35	620.1K followers
46	Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	37	133.4K followers
47	Prague, Czech Republic	37	287.9K followers
48	Sao Paulo, Brazil	39	181.6K followers
49	Lisbon, Portugal	39	205.2K followers
50	Los Angeles, USA	42	16.2M followers
51	Bratislava, Slovakia	42	87.6K followers
52	Brussels, Belgium	42	351.4K followers
53	Paris, France	43	15.2M followers
54	Busan, South Korea	44	1.1M followers
55	Moscow, Russia	44	1.2M followers
56	Milan, Italy	44	512.2K followers
57	Seoul, South Korea	47	17.6M followers
58	Tehran, Iran	47	1.6M followers
59	Kraków, Poland	48	603.9K followers
60	Kobe, Japan	50	68.4K followers
61	Kyoto, Japan	50	266.9K followers
62	Algiers, Algeria	50	50.3K followers
63	Portland, USA	51	439.9K followers
64	Vancouver, Canada	52	561.1K followers
65	Kyiv, Ukraine	53	668.9K followers
66	Baku, Azerbaijan	53	86K followers
67	Osaka, Japan	54	661.1K followers
68	Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina	54	780.7K followers
69	Sofia, Bulgaria	55	275.1K followers
70	Bucharest, Romania	55	211.1K followers
71	Athens, Greece	55	188.2K followers
72	Pristina, Kosovo	55	113.1K followers
73	Lima, Peru	56	67.6K followers
74	Amsterdam, Netherlands	56	564.6K followers
75	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan	56	608.2K followers
76	Rotterdam, Netherlands	56	188.5K followers
77	Johannesburg, South Africa	56	110.9K followers
78	Taipei, Taiwan	59	1.5M followers
79	Nairobi, Kenya	60	78.7K followers
80	Cairo, Egypt	60	276.8K followers
81	Medan, Indonesia	60	1.4M followers
82	Istanbul, Turkey	61	554.8K followers
83	Almaty, Kazakhstan	64	832.1K followers
84	Kabul, Afghanistan	64	62.6K followers
85	Hanoi, Vietnam	66	3.6M followers
86	Accra, Ghana	66	27.3K followers
87	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	67	36.5K followers
88	Shanghai, China	69	3.4M followers
89	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	70	1.5M followers
90	Chengdu, China	71	2.4M followers
91	Skopje, North Macedonia	71	250.1K followers
92	Belgrade, Serbia	75	1.3M followers
93	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	80	1.1M followers
94	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	81	2.9M followers
95	Kathmandu, Nepal	81	447.6K followers
96	Karachi, Pakistan	81	308.6K followers
97	Santiago, Chile	82	178.4K followers
98	Dakar, Senegal	82	50.7K followers
99	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	84	394.4K followers
100	Baghdad, Iraq	86	292.1K followers
101	Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR	88	1.2M followers
102	Doha, Qatar	90	330K followers
103	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	91	1.2M followers
104	Manama, Bahrain	94	80K followers
105	Incheon, South Korea	101	193.4K followers
106	Hangzhou, China	101	790.7K followers
107	Wuhan, China	104	643.7K followers
108	Beijing, China	105	18.3M followers
109	Dhaka, Bangladesh	107	492K followers
110	Shenzhen, China	109	862.8K followers
111	Mumbai, India	110	1.8M followers
112	Kampala, Uganda	110	39.5K followers
113	Jakarta, Indonesia	116	2.2M followers
114	Jerusalem, Israel	116	98.6K followers
115	Guangzhou, China	118	2M followers
116	Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel	119	236.5K followers
117	Kuwait City, Kuwait	120	172K followers
118	Delhi, India	122	3.3M followers
119	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo	132	18.1K followers
120	Lahore, Pakistan	155	1.1M followers
121	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	159	1.1M followers
122	Kolkata, India	162	1.6M followers
123	Singapore, Singapore	168	1.3M followers
124	Kuching, Malaysia	170	104.3K followers