Overall air quality across Sarawak has remained hazardous and unhealthy

KUCHING, Sept 1 2026: The overall air quality across Sarawak has remained hazardous and unhealthy as at 2pm this afternoon.

Caption: The aftermath of the Kalimantan forest fires The poor air quality level of Kuching City has slightly dropped from the very hazardous level 407, to hazardous level of 374 and IPD Serian from 408 level at  8am this morning to 389 at 2pm this afternoon. All said, ten stations showed 10 areas having hazardous air quality level, four areas as having very unhealthy and six as unhealthy levels. Starting today, MetMalaysia has upgraded API reading above 400 up to 500 level as very hazardous to high risk people and public health.   AIR POLLUTANT INDEX (API) FOR SARAWAK
Tuesday 1 September 2026, 2:00 P.M.
STATION	INDEX	STATUS
KUCHING	374	Hazardous
SAMARAHAN	339	Hazardous
IPD SERIAN (MCAQM)	389	Hazardous
SIMANGGANG	327	Hazardous
SARIKEI	349	Hazardous
SIBU	331	Hazardous
MUKAH	239	Very Unhealthy
KAPIT	185	Unhealthy
BINTULU	247	Very Unhealthy
SAMALAJU	236	Very Unhealthy
MIRI	184	Unhealthy
ILP MIRI	189	Unhealthy
LIMBANG	170	Unhealthy
LUNDU	351	Hazardous
TEBEDU	353	Hazardous
LUBOK ANTU	390	Hazardous
KANOWIT	364	Hazardous
LAWAS	167	Unhealthy
BARIO	150	Unhealthy
BETONG (MCAQM)	246	Very Unhealthy
Nota: i. API is calculated based on 24-hour running average of the most dominant parameter. ii. MCAQM - Mobile Continuous Air Quality Monitoring i