IQAir AirVisual · Example Payload

City Ranking

Example request and response for retrieving cities ranked from highest to lowest AQI worldwide.

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City Ranking is an example object payload from IQAir AirVisual, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

{
  "title": "City Air Quality Ranking",
  "description": "Example request and response for retrieving cities ranked from highest to lowest AQI worldwide.",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.airvisual.com/v2/city_ranking?key=YOUR_API_KEY"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": "success",
    "data": [
      {
        "city": "Lahore",
        "state": "Punjab",
        "country": "Pakistan",
        "ranking": { "current_aqi": 312, "current_aqi_cn": 248 }
      },
      {
        "city": "Delhi",
        "state": "Delhi",
        "country": "India",
        "ranking": { "current_aqi": 287, "current_aqi_cn": 213 }
      },
      {
        "city": "Dhaka",
        "state": "Dhaka",
        "country": "Bangladesh",
        "ranking": { "current_aqi": 241, "current_aqi_cn": 187 }
      },
      {
        "city": "Beijing",
        "state": "Beijing",
        "country": "China",
        "ranking": { "current_aqi": 178, "current_aqi_cn": 142 }
      },
      {
        "city": "Bangkok",
        "state": "Bangkok",
        "country": "Thailand",
        "ranking": { "current_aqi": 156, "current_aqi_cn": 119 }
      }
    ]
  }
}

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