Pollution in South Africa

Select city in South Africa:

Air Pollution	49.62	Moderate
Drinking Water Pollution and Inaccessibility	36.89	Low
Dissatisfaction with Garbage Disposal	45.56	Moderate
Dirty and Untidy	60.64	High
Noise and Light Pollution	43.68	Moderate
Water Pollution	59.54	Moderate
Dissatisfaction with Spending Time in the City	46.43	Moderate
Dissatisfaction with Green and Parks in the City	49.79	Moderate

Purity and Cleanliness in South Africa

Air quality	50.38	Moderate
Drinking Water Quality and Accessibility	63.11	High
Garbage Disposal Satisfaction	54.44	Moderate
Clean and Tidy	39.36	Low
Quiet and No Problem with Night Lights	56.32	Moderate
Water Quality	40.46	Moderate
Comfortable to Spend Time in the City	53.57	Moderate
Quality of Green and Parks	50.21	Moderate

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Last update: 6 February 2026

These data are based on perceptions of visitors of this website in the past 5 years.

If the value is 0, it means it is perceived as very low, and if the value is 100, it means it is perceived as very high.

Our data for each country are based on all entries from all cities in that country.

City	Pollution Index	Exp Pollution Index
Johannesburg	61.9	107.9
Pretoria	57.1	98.6
Durban	53.2	92.4
Cape Town	38.3	64.1

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Index
Pollution Index:	57.43
Pollution Exp Scale:	97.94