Planning your day in Kathmandu
The World Bank includes Nepal in its work on shared South Asian airsheds. Start with the location and measurement time, then check the local reading; a regional pollution problem does not establish the conditions on every Kathmandu street today.
Start with central Kathmandu, Lalitpur, your route through the valley. Choose the actual point on the map to compare it with the city-centre location used on this page.
What should you do when pollution rises?
Read the health advice for the index and country you are using. On poorer-air days, consider shortening or rescheduling strenuous outdoor activity. Children and people with heart or lung conditions may need extra care.
- Understand AQI and concentration
- Running when air quality changes
- Walking with children
- Why apps show different numbers
Sources and limits
This page shows readings from nearby monitoring stations of public and community networks, such as Sensor.Community, WAQI, OpenAQ, PurpleAir and Syngeos, and in Poland the official GIOŚ network. When no station is nearby, it shows a Copernicus model estimate. Measurements and model values are different kinds of information; a missing or old reading is not evidence of clean air.
How Atmiq handles sources and indices · Read the regional or official background ↗