Bishkek City: air quality for the completed day
39 µg/m³ Elevated
Daily mean PM2.5 on October 21, 2026 (00:00–24:00 UTC): 39 µg/m³ from 4 sensors that passed the quality check — the same value as in the Atmy Data Hub.
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No current value: fewer than four sensors at different places are reporting now.
Bishkek City, October 21, 2026: daily mean PM2.5 39 µg/m³ (4 sensors), level “Elevated” — as in the Atmy Data Hub. Open methodology and data in JSON: Methodology and data sources · JSON
In Bishkek City the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups right now (approximate, US EPA scale). From 11:00 to 22:00 local time the city mean PM2.5 rose from 10.0 to 43.0 µg/m³.
Light wind (1 m/s) in the evening or at night, as the air cools, possibly traps particles near the ground (a temperature inversion).
Weather now: partly cloudy, 8°C, wind 1 m/s, humidity 51%. No major change in the wind is expected in the coming hours.
Written automatically at 23:07 local time (17:07 UTC) from sensor measurements and the weather forecast. Values are approximate; hypotheses are marked.
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39 µg/m³ Elevated
Daily mean PM2.5 on October 21, 2026 (00:00–24:00 UTC): 39 µg/m³ from 4 sensors that passed the quality check — the same value as in the Atmy Data Hub.
Monthly means of quality-checked sensors, as in the Data Hub trend; the current month is still incomplete, “-” means no data.
38%An estimate of weather conditions · not a PM2.5 forecast
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53/100Moderate
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55/100Moderate
8°/-2°
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55/100Moderate
10°/-1°
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59/100Moderate
13°/3°
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59/100Moderate
14°/4°
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60/100Moderate
Forecast of conditions that trap pollution near the surface
8°
Partly cloudy. Feels like 5°C
4km/hWind from the WSW
11km/hWind gusts
Wind force: 1
Light wind is expected over the next few hours.
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Daily mean PM2.5 of the city sensors, µg/m³
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Daily mean PM2.5 on October 21, 2026 (00:00–24:00 UTC): 39 µg/m³ from 4 sensors that passed the quality check — the same value as in the Atmy Data Hub. No. 1 of 1 cities in Kyrgyzstan and No. 8 of 297 worldwide, from the most polluted.
Fresh data for Bishkek City are insufficient (last update: 21:45 local time, 15:45 UTC). Open the map for the latest readings of individual sensors.
From Atmy sensors and connected public networks (citizen, experimental and government monitors), aggregated by Atmy. Values are approximate; see the methodology.
The summary is rebuilt every 15 minutes from the latest reading of each sensor, each no older than one hour.
Over the last 137 days with data, the mean daily PM2.5 in Bishkek City was 17.5 µg/m³ — 3.5 times the WHO annual guideline (5 µg/m³). Over the last 30 days: — µg/m³. From Atmy's archive of daily city means.
In Atmy's daily archive, the cleanest month of the last year was June 2026: 3.8 µg/m³ on average.
The most polluted month of the last year was May 2026: 22.5 µg/m³ on average.
The daily value is the Data Hub’s: the mean of the city’s sensors that passed the nightly quality check, each with at least 12 valid hours, and only with sensors at four places 500 m apart; days are UTC.
“Now” uses the same sensors and rule: the mean of their latest readings, each at most 60 minutes old, shown only with sensors at four places 500 m apart reporting.
Source: public Atmy monitoring data. Methodology and data sources · Data terms