Air quality now
Air quality in Istanbul
Turkey
Above WHO limits — PM2.5 is 1.1× the WHO limit
🚬 Breathing this all day ≈ smoking 0.8 cigarettes
Each ball below is a pollutant measured in Istanbul, sized against WHO safe limits — it's a snapshot of the air, not a map.
- PM2.517 µg/m³1.1×
- PM1022 µg/m³0.5×
- NO₂20 µg/m³0.8×
- O₃108 µg/m³1.1×
- SO₂7 µg/m³0.2×
- CO185 µg/m³0.0×
What you're seeing
Each ball is a pollutant measured in Istanbulright now. The more balls of a colour, the more of that pollutant is in the air — normalised against the World Health Organization's safe limits, so a hazy city looks unmistakably denser than a clean one. Data is live from Open-Meteo / CAMS. How Polly works →
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