Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Monitoring Network

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In one of the world's most polluted capitals, national agency NAMEM and the city's Air Pollution Reduction Department run about 16 monitoring sites measuring PM2.5, PM10, SO2 and NO2. Real-time readings and, since 2018, a health-based air quality index are published publicly on agaar.mn.

Live 📅 since 2015
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Scale🏙️ City-wide

🎓 Lesson

Continuous, openly published readings turned the city's winter smog from an argument into a measurable, accountable number.

Sources

↗ NAMEM — agaar.mn air quality portalOperator's public real-time PM2.5/PM10/SO2/NO2 readings and health-based AQI
↗ AAQR (2020), Recent Improvement in PM Pollution in UlaanbaatarPeer-reviewed: NAMEM+APRD sites, continuous data from Jan 2015
↗ AAQR (2021), Urban Air Quality Studies in MongoliaPeer-reviewed review: 16 UB sites / 42 nationwide, pollutants monitored
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Monitoring Network” — Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ulaanbaatar-air-monitoring/ (last verified 2026-07-19). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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