Pakistan Air Quality Analytics

The Pakistan Air Quality Analytics dashboard, developed by the Gallup Pakistan Digital Analytics team, offers a comprehensive and interactive exploration of air quality across Pakistan. It covers daily readings for 34 cities in all provinces and territories from January 2023 onwards, and is designed to show how clean the air is, which cities and seasons are the most polluted, and how air quality changes over time.

The dashboard has filters for Year, Province, Season, Month and AQI category, along with city selection for trend charts and the number of cities shown in the rankings.

Dashboard Features

Overview

This page gives a quick picture of Pakistan’s air: the average Air Quality Index (AQI), the share of safe-air and unhealthy days, the most polluted and cleanest cities, key insights, the 10 most polluted and 10 cleanest cities, and how the air changes month by month, with the winter smog season clearly visible.

City Report, Daily Air Quality and Hourly Profile

These pages look closer at individual cities, day-by-day air quality and how pollution rises and falls across the hours of the day.

Sources & Trends and Smog Episodes

These pages examine the pollutants behind the AQI and how they change over time, and track the smog episodes that hit Pakistan’s cities, especially in winter.

Cities and Forecasting

The final pages compare cities side by side and give a look ahead at expected air quality.

Every chart includes a short “How to read this chart” note, and the AQI colours follow the standard categories from Good to Hazardous.

Disclaimer

These readings may differ from official figures because our data is not from ground monitoring stations (such as EPA). Ground-based monitoring exists mainly in Punjab and a few major cities, as Pakistan does not have stations across the whole country. Our data comes from Copernicus (CAMS), which estimates air quality using satellite observations and models. We download it through the Open-Meteo Air Quality API and use it in the dashboard.

Data source: Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, CAMS).