Global Air Quality Today: Live City AQI & Pollution Hotspots — Jun 20, 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 N. • Cleanest: Physicians /1k at 1.86. • Biggest gainer: Air Quality (Cape Town) (+207.6% on the day). • Biggest drop: Air Quality (Perth) (-63.5% on the day). • Record watch: Air Quality (LA) just set a record low (40.00 n); Air Quality (São Paulo) just set a record low (50.00 n); COVID Cases (Total) just set a record high (704.75M N); COVID Deaths (Total) just set a record high (7.01M N); 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 N (+0.0%) • COVID Deaths (Total): 7.01M N (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Delhi): 514.00 n (+26.9%) • Air Quality (Lucknow): 247.00 n (+56.3%) • Air Quality (Cape Town): 203.00 n (+207.6%) • Maternal Mortality /100k: 197.00 N (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Doha): 155.00 n (-14.8%) • Air Quality (Chongqing): 153.00 n (-6.1%) • Air Quality (Kuwait City): 153.00 n (+3.4%) • Air Quality (Kolkata): 151.00 n (+41.1%) • Air Quality (Lahore): 149.00 n (+34.2%) • Air Quality (Beijing): 148.00 n (-11.4%) • Air Quality (Xi'an): 136.00 n (+10.6%) • Air Quality (Ho Chi Minh City): 134.00 n (+6.3%) • Air Quality (Chengdu): 131.00 n (-9.7%) • Air Quality (Jaipur): 131.00 n (+9.2%) • Air Quality (Jakarta): 130.00 n (-13.9%) • Air Quality (Tianjin): 125.00 n (-19.4%) • Air Quality (Abu Dhabi): 113.00 n (+17.7%) • Air Quality (Muscat): 111.00 n (+15.6%) • Air Quality (Milan): 106.00 n (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Wuhan): 106.00 n (+55.9%) • Air Quality (Dhaka): 99.00 n (-14.7%) • Air Quality (Islamabad): 99.00 n (+12.5%) • Air Quality (Chennai): 94.00 n (-19.0%) • Ozone µg/m³ (NYC): 91.00 (-9.0%) • Air Quality (Guatemala City): 89.00 n (-20.5%) • Air Quality (Addis Ababa): 87.00 n (-16.3%) • Air Quality (Kinshasa): 83.00 n (-26.5%) • Air Quality (Surabaya): 82.00 n (-6.8%) • Air Quality (Bangalore): 79.00 n (+36.2%) • Air Quality (Hamburg): 74.00 n (-1.3%) • Air Quality (Frankfurt): 73.00 n (-18.0%) • Air Quality (Hyderabad): 73.00 n (+0.0%) • Air Quality (Yangon): 73.00 n (+12.3%) • Air Quality (Baku): 72.00 n (-25.0%) • Air Quality (Ahmedabad): 71.00 n (+6.0%) • Air Quality (Rome Area): 71.00 n (-23.7%) • Air Quality (Guangzhou): 70.00 n (-1.4%) • Air Quality (Dakar): 70.00 n (-36.4%) • Air Quality (Algiers): 69.00 n (-1.4%) • Air Quality (Copenhagen): 69.00 n (+76.9%) • Air Quality (Mexico City): 68.00 n (-1.4%) • Air Quality (Phnom Penh): 68.00 n (-2.9%) • Air Quality (Luanda): 65.00 n (-9.7%) • Air Quality (Santo Domingo): 65.00 n (+10.2%) • Air Quality (Budapest): 63.00 n (+21.2%) • Air Quality (Jeddah): 62.00 n (-13.9%) • Air Quality (Beirut): 61.00 n (+27.1%) • Air Quality (Almaty): 60.00 n (+1.7%) • Air Quality (Tashkent): 59.00 n (+1.7%) • Air Quality (Atlanta): 57.00 n (+119.2%) • Air Quality (Chittagong): 57.00 n (-14.9%) • Air Quality (Asuncion): 55.00 n (+83.3%) • Air Quality (Kampala): 55.00 n (-5.2%) • Air Quality (Shenzhen): 55.00 n (+10.0%) • Air Quality (Vancouver): 55.00 n (-3.5%) • Air Quality (Brisbane): 54.00 n (+58.8%) • Air Quality (Vienna): 54.00 n (-14.3%) • Air Quality (Houston): 53.00 n (+3.9%)

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