Air quality by country

Air quality in Russia today

Updated Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:43:35 GMT

Good: average US AQI 46 across 76 cities Worst now: Ufa (92); cleanest: Kirov (18).

Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Russia, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.

Average US AQI: 46 Good
Most polluted now: Ufa AQI 92
Cleanest now: Kirov AQI 18
Cities above 100: 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse

Air quality in Russia today

Right now the modelled air quality in Russia averages a US AQI of 46 (Good) across the 76 cities we track. By category: 43 Good, 33 Moderate (of 76).

That is 19 points better than the worldwide average of 65 across 3,909 cities.

Ufa has the worst air at 92 with PM2.5 at 38 µg/m³, while Kirov is cleanest at 18. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.

Russia cities by AQI (most polluted first)

City	Region	US AQI	Category	PM2.5 µg/m³	Ozone µg/m³
Ufa	Bashkortostan Republic	92	Moderate	37.5	0
Stavropol	Stavropol Kray	87	Moderate	31.1	48
Makhachkala	Dagestan	86	Moderate	19.6	65
Moscow	Moscow	83	Moderate	20.7	26
Cherëmushki	Moscow	83	Moderate	20.7	26
Taganrog	Rostov	80	Moderate	22.2	51
Rostov-on-Don	Rostov	77	Moderate	15.6	47
Bataysk	Rostov	77	Moderate	15.6	47
Vladikavkaz	North Ossetia–Alania	69	Moderate	20.8	32
Grozny	Chechnya	69	Moderate	10.2	32
Orenburg	Orenburg Oblast	67	Moderate	34.6	14
Samara	Samara Oblast	66	Moderate	17.4	8
Krasnodar	Krasnodar Krai	65	Moderate	23.6	37
Naberezhnyye Chelny	Tatarstan Republic	63	Moderate	16.2	18
Yekaterinburg	Sverdlovsk Oblast	62	Moderate	9	35
Tolyatti	Samara Oblast	61	Moderate	13.1	34
Yaroslavl	Yaroslavl Oblast	60	Moderate	12.4	32
Kazan	Tatarstan Republic	59	Moderate	10.3	28
Perm	Perm Krai	59	Moderate	10.7	30
Saint Petersburg	St. Petersburg	58	Moderate	11.8	43
Magnitogorsk	Chelyabinsk	58	Moderate	13.2	22
Izhevsk	Udmurtiya Republic	57	Moderate	14.6	22
Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk	56	Moderate	11.1	31
Ulyanovsk	Ulyanovsk	56	Moderate	14	30
Nizhny Tagil	Sverdlovsk Oblast	56	Moderate	8.9	35
Omsk	Omsk Oblast	55	Moderate	23.3	2
Tula	Tula Oblast	55	Moderate	7.7	43
Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk Oblast	54	Moderate	13.6	28
Lipetsk	Lipetsk Oblast	54	Moderate	8.4	43
Smolensk	Smolensk Oblast	54	Moderate	8.5	46
Nizhniy Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	53	Moderate	8.5	28
Cherepovets	Vologda Oblast	52	Moderate	11.5	43
Belgorod	Belgorod Oblast	51	Moderate	10.3	44
Bryansk	Bryansk Oblast	50	Good	10.3	48
Arkhangel’sk	Arkhangelskaya	50	Good	7.8	38
Kaliningrad	Kaliningrad Oblast	49	Good	5.8	55
Tver	Tver Oblast	49	Good	5.4	46
Kursk	Kursk Oblast	47	Good	10.9	45
Petrozavodsk	Karelia	45	Good	9	47
Kemerovo	Kuzbass	42	Good	9.4	46
Vladivostok	Primorye	40	Good	13.1	40
Vologda	Vologda Oblast	39	Good	7.8	39
Sochi	Krasnodar Krai	38	Good	6.2	52
Kaluga	Kaluga Oblast	37	Good	6.5	44
Astrakhan	Astrakhan Oblast	36	Good	4	56
Orël	Oryol oblast	36	Good	8.2	44
Volgograd	Volgograd Oblast	35	Good	9.1	47
Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk	35	Good	7	45
Novokuznetsk	Kuzbass	34	Good	11.1	65
Krasnoyarsk	Krasnoyarsk Krai	33	Good	1	71
Voronezh	Voronezh Oblast	32	Good	4	42
Irkutsk	Irkutsk Oblast	32	Good	0.9	67
Ulan-Ude	Buryatiya Republic	32	Good	0.6	68
Chita	Zabaykalskiy (Transbaikal) Kray	32	Good	2	68
Kostroma	Kostroma Oblast	31	Good	5.2	35
Yoshkar-Ola	Mariy-El Republic	31	Good	5.8	30
Ryazan’	Ryazan Oblast	30	Good	4.3	41
Murmansk	Murmansk	30	Good	3.9	35
Yakutsk	Sakha	30	Good	4.7	60
Cheboksary	Chuvash Republic	29	Good	4	34
Ivanovo	Ivanovo Oblast	29	Good	4.4	35
Barnaul	Altai Krai	28	Good	5.8	49
Kurgan	Kurgan Oblast	27	Good	9.4	23
Komsomolsk-on-Amur	Khabarovsk	27	Good	2	58
Tomsk	Tomsk Oblast	24	Good	3.4	47
Vladimir	Vladimir Oblast	24	Good	3	37
Volzhsky	Volgograd Oblast	24	Good	3.8	47
Seversk	Tomsk Oblast	24	Good	3.4	47
Tyumen	Tyumen Oblast	23	Good	5.4	22
Tambov	Tambov Oblast	21	Good	2.3	41
Saratov	Saratov Oblast	20	Good	2.9	33
Penza	Penza Oblast	20	Good	2.4	39
Saransk	Mordoviya Republic	20	Good	2.4	39
Engels	Saratov Oblast	20	Good	2.9	33
Surgut	Khanty-Mansia	19	Good	6.7	41
Kirov	Kirov Oblast	18	Good	5.7	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.

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

Air quality in Russia today

Air quality in Russia today

Russia cities by AQI (most polluted first)

What the US AQI numbers mean

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