Air quality by country
Air quality in Kazakhstan today
Updated
Good: average US AQI 41 across 12 cities Worst now: Almaty (96); cleanest: Oral (20).
Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Kazakhstan, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.
- Average US AQI
- 41 Good
- Most polluted now
- Almaty AQI 96
- Cleanest now
- Oral AQI 20
- Cities above 100
- 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse
Air quality in Kazakhstan today
Right now the modelled air quality in Kazakhstan averages a US AQI of 41 (Good) across the 12 cities we track. By category: 9 Good, 3 Moderate (of 12).
That is 25 points better than the worldwide average of 66 across 3,556 cities.
Almaty has the worst air at 96 with PM2.5 at 48 µg/m³, while Oral is cleanest at 20. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.
Kazakhstan cities by AQI (most polluted first)
| City | Region | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ | Ozone µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almaty | Almaty | 96 | Moderate | 48.4 | 28 |
| Shymkent | Shymkent | 69 | Moderate | 28 | 20 |
| Karagandy | Karaganda | 52 | Moderate | 12.9 | 35 |
| Taraz | Zhambyl | 45 | Good | 11.7 | 32 |
| Aktobe | Aktobe | 40 | Good | 7.5 | 30 |
| Astana | Astana | 36 | Good | 10.4 | 17 |
| Ust-Kamenogorsk | East Kazakhstan | 31 | Good | 5.8 | 61 |
| Pavlodar | Pavlodar Region | 27 | Good | 6.3 | 10 |
| Kyzylorda | Kyzylorda | 26 | Good | 2.7 | 54 |
| Atyrau | Atyrau Oblisi | 26 | Good | 1.7 | 53 |
| Semey | Abai Region | 22 | Good | 3 | 43 |
| Oral | West Kazakhstan | 20 | Good | 1.4 | 35 |
What the US AQI numbers mean
| US AQI | Category | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 0-50 | Good | Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no risk; a good time for outdoor activity. |
| 51-100 | Moderate | Acceptable for most people. Unusually sensitive people should consider shortening long or heavy exertion outdoors. |
| 101-150 | Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups | People with heart or lung disease, older adults, children and teens should cut back on prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors. |
| 151-200 | Unhealthy | Everyone should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors; sensitive groups should avoid it and keep windows closed. |
| 201-300 | Very Unhealthy | Health alert: everyone should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors, and sensitive groups should stay indoors. |
| 301-500 | Hazardous | Emergency conditions: everyone should avoid all outdoor physical activity and stay indoors with filtered air if possible. The scale tops out at 500; heavier dust or smoke is shown as 500. |
Modelled by CAMS (Copernicus) via Open-Meteo, refreshed twice a day; read hour by hour from the forecast.
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Data: Open-Meteo Air Quality API, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).