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	Minneapolis, USA	5	95.1K followers
2	Auckland, New Zealand	8	259.1K followers
3	Moscow, Russia	14	1.3M followers
4	Melbourne, Australia	15	868.5K followers
5	Copenhagen, Denmark	16	209.1K followers
6	Santiago, Chile	17	180.1K followers
7	Sydney, Australia	19	1.9M followers
8	Detroit, USA	19	77K followers
9	Canberra, Australia	19	505.6K followers
10	Stockholm, Sweden	19	254.5K followers
11	Birmingham, United Kingdom	19	367.2K followers
12	Nice, France	20	601.4K followers
13	Skopje, North Macedonia	21	252.6K followers
14	Helsinki, Finland	21	224.2K followers
15	Barcelona, Spain	23	623.7K followers
16	Sofia, Bulgaria	24	277.7K followers
17	Rome, Italy	24	434.7K followers
18	Houston, USA	25	136.5K followers
19	Chicago, USA	26	228.2K followers
20	Pristina, Kosovo	26	114.6K followers
21	Toronto, Canada	27	1.1M followers
22	San Francisco, USA	29	1.1M followers
23	Warsaw, Poland	29	824.7K followers
24	Washington D.C., USA	31	180.6K followers
25	Dublin, Ireland	31	125.6K followers
26	Denver, USA	32	2M followers
27	Lisbon, Portugal	32	208K followers
28	Kobe, Japan	33	69.1K followers
29	Madrid, Spain	33	782.1K followers
30	Hangzhou, China	33	806.4K followers
31	Kyoto, Japan	33	269.7K followers
32	Athens, Greece	33	191.2K followers
33	Los Angeles, USA	34	16.3M followers
34	Salt Lake City, USA	34	268.2K followers
35	Bucharest, Romania	35	213.8K followers
36	Vancouver, Canada	35	568.7K followers
37	Seattle, USA	36	793.7K followers
38	Bogota, Colombia	36	145.8K followers
39	Lima, Peru	37	68.4K followers
40	Oslo, Norway	38	195.4K followers
41	New York, USA	39	2.6M followers
42	Phnom Penh, Cambodia	39	1.1M followers
43	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	41	2.9M followers
44	Osaka, Japan	42	671.3K followers
45	Krasnoyarsk, Russia	42	159.1K followers
46	Tokyo, Japan	44	1.7M followers
47	Shanghai, China	44	3.5M followers
48	Prague, Czech Republic	45	290.6K followers
49	Ljubljana, Slovenia	46	208.1K followers
50	Amsterdam, Netherlands	46	570.4K followers
51	Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina	47	786.5K followers
52	Montreal, Canada	48	353K followers
53	Mexico City, Mexico	49	625.5K followers
54	Budapest, Hungary	50	164.1K followers
55	Brussels, Belgium	51	354.3K followers
56	London, United Kingdom	52	1.2M followers
57	Milan, Italy	52	519K followers
58	Berlin, Germany	53	867.2K followers
59	Kyiv, Ukraine	53	676.6K followers
60	Dakar, Senegal	53	52K followers
61	Kabul, Afghanistan	54	63.3K followers
62	Kuching, Malaysia	54	110.7K followers
63	Kraków, Poland	55	608.1K followers
64	Johannesburg, South Africa	55	111.6K followers
65	Chiang Mai, Thailand	56	16M followers
66	Munich, Germany	56	702K followers
67	Chongqing, China	58	512.2K followers
68	Belgrade, Serbia	58	1.3M followers
69	Zagreb, Croatia	58	273.9K followers
70	Paris, France	58	15.3M followers
71	Bratislava, Slovakia	59	88.5K followers
72	Wuhan, China	60	655.3K followers
73	Kampala, Uganda	60	39.8K followers
74	Sao Paulo, Brazil	60	183.4K followers
75	Algiers, Algeria	60	50.6K followers
76	Manila, Philippines	60	381.9K followers
77	Bern, Switzerland	61	222.8K followers
78	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	62	1.2M followers
79	Vienna, Austria	63	488.4K followers
80	Wrocław, Poland	63	444.9K followers
81	Almaty, Kazakhstan	64	844.1K followers
82	Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR	65	1.2M followers
83	Taipei, Taiwan	65	1.5M followers
84	Nairobi, Kenya	66	79.6K followers
85	Istanbul, Turkey	66	561.8K followers
86	Lyon, France	66	704.7K followers
87	Shenzhen, China	67	873.1K followers
88	Medan, Indonesia	69	1.4M followers
89	Bangkok, Thailand	73	17.3M followers
90	Busan, South Korea	73	1.1M followers
91	Seoul, South Korea	75	17.7M followers
92	Tehran, Iran	75	1.6M followers
93	Incheon, South Korea	77	195.1K followers
94	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo	77	18.5K followers
95	Portland, USA	78	448.5K followers
96	Kuwait City, Kuwait	78	173.8K followers
97	Accra, Ghana	80	27.8K followers
98	Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	80	135.9K followers
99	Jerusalem, Israel	80	99.3K followers
100	Singapore, Singapore	82	1.4M followers
101	Guangzhou, China	82	2M followers
102	Rotterdam, Netherlands	82	189.7K followers
103	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	83	1.6M followers
104	Manama, Bahrain	83	81.1K followers
105	Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel	84	239.7K followers
106	Cairo, Egypt	88	280.6K followers
107	Baghdad, Iraq	93	298K followers
108	Yangon, Myanmar	99	234.7K followers
109	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan	101	616.2K followers
110	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	102	1.1M followers
111	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	105	399.3K followers
112	Chengdu, China	112	2.4M followers
113	Baku, Azerbaijan	112	87.2K followers
114	Jakarta, Indonesia	121	2.3M followers
115	Kathmandu, Nepal	121	451.6K followers
116	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	129	36.9K followers
117	Doha, Qatar	139	333.6K followers
118	Hanoi, Vietnam	142	3.6M followers
119	Mumbai, India	152	1.8M followers
120	Dhaka, Bangladesh	154	496.2K followers
121	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	157	1.2M followers
122	Kolkata, India	175	1.6M followers
123	Beijing, China	178	18.5M followers
124	Karachi, Pakistan	178	312.2K followers
125	Delhi, India	237	3.3M followers
126	Lahore, Pakistan	400	1.1M followers