Global Air Quality Today: Live City AQI & Pollution Hotspots — Jun 22, 2026

Air quality across the world's major cities right now — who's breathing easy, who's choking, and where pollution is spiking. Lower AQI is cleaner.

The standouts right now:

• Most polluted: COVID Cases (Total) at 704.75M. • Cleanest: Physicians /1k at 1.86. • Biggest gainer: Ozone µg/m³ (NYC) (+162.5% on the day). • Biggest drop: EPA UV Index (NYC) (-60.0% on the day). • Record watch: Air Quality (Dhaka) just set a record low (72); COVID Cases (Total) just set a record high (704.75M); COVID Deaths (Total) just set a record high (7.01M); EPA UV Index (NYC) just set a record low (2); Health Spend % GDP just set a record high (10.02%).

All 155 city air-quality readings we're tracking, highest to lowest:

• COVID Cases (Total): 704.75M (+0.0%) • COVID Deaths (Total): 7.01M (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Delhi): 367 (-4.9%) • Air Quality (Kuwait City): 355 (+150.0%) • Maternal Mortality /100k: 197 (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Lucknow): 179 (-20.4%) • Air Quality (Ho Chi Minh City): 157 (+18.0%) • Air Quality (Cape Town): 151 (-5.6%) • Air Quality (Jakarta): 147 (+11.4%) • Air Quality (Kolkata): 128 (+12.3%) • Air Quality (Jaipur): 119 (+4.4%) • Air Quality (Xi'an): 115 (-17.9%) • Air Quality (Beijing): 114 (-24.5%) • Air Quality (Tianjin): 113 (-21.5%) • Air Quality (Lahore): 112 (-5.9%) • Air Quality (Abu Dhabi): 112 (-15.2%) • Air Quality (Dakar): 103 (+47.1%) • Air Quality (Muscat): 101 (-9.0%) • Air Quality (Doha): 97 (-20.5%) • Air Quality (Jeddah): 92 (+31.4%) • Air Quality (Kinshasa): 86 (+2.4%) • Air Quality (Chengdu): 85 (-26.1%) • Air Quality (Beirut): 80 (+2.6%) • Air Quality (Chongqing): 77 (+13.2%) • Air Quality (São Paulo): 75 (+114.3%) • Air Quality (Islamabad): 73 (+9.0%) • Air Quality (Dhaka): 72 (-2.7%) • Air Quality (Mexico City): 72 (+24.1%) • Air Quality (Addis Ababa): 72 (-6.5%) • Air Quality (Ahmedabad): 72 (-2.7%) • Air Quality (Yangon): 72 (+20.0%) • Air Quality (Chennai): 70 (-19.5%) • Air Quality (Guangzhou): 69 (-6.8%) • Air Quality (Durban): 69 (+72.5%) • Air Quality (Luanda): 69 (+6.2%) • Air Quality (Rio de Janeiro): 67 (+28.8%) • Air Quality (Vancouver): 64 (+16.4%) • Air Quality (Phoenix): 63 (+14.5%) • Air Quality (Guatemala City): 62 (-13.9%) • Air Quality (Tashkent): 62 (-4.6%) • Air Quality (Detroit): 61 (+134.6%) • Air Quality (Kampala): 61 (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Las Vegas): 60 (+22.4%) • Air Quality (Salvador): 60 (+46.3%) • Air Quality (Wuhan): 59 (-47.3%) • Air Quality (Hyderabad): 58 (-20.5%) • Air Quality (Phnom Penh): 58 (-19.4%) • Air Quality (Shenzhen): 58 (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Surabaya): 57 (-28.7%) • Air Quality (Algiers): 56 (-13.8%) • Air Quality (Almaty): 54 (-25.0%) • Air Quality (Santo Domingo): 54 (-29.9%) • Air Quality (Adelaide): 52 (+26.8%) • Air Quality (Belgrade): 52 (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Porto): 52 (+26.8%) • Air Quality (Denver): 51 (+18.6%) • Air Quality (Jerusalem): 51 (+15.9%) • Air Quality (Naples): 51 (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Atlanta): 50 (+19.0%) • Air Quality (Belo Horizonte): 50 (+11.1%)

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Source: News Never Sleeps — the AI 24-hour news network. Figures updated continuously, reported as measured.