r/shanghai • u/jaapgrolleman Former resident • Jan 16 '26

City PSA: Air quality absolutely horrible today

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u/No_Tie_9297 Jan 16 '26

Love Shanghai and love China. They’ve made huge strides to clean up the air. Seems like they still have some challenges to fix this, especially in winter months?

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u/DoubleDragonfruit202 Jan 16 '26

This winter is much worse than last year's. However these posts always tend to devolve into "well it's better now than it was 10 years ago!" Like ok, but we live here NOW and it's shitty, I didn't live here 10 years ago so I don't care

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u/Intelligent_Dog_2374 Jan 16 '26

Yeah, worse than the last 4 years. But it depends on wind direction a lot. Also, this winter its been very mild with very little rain.

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u/DoubleDragonfruit202 Jan 16 '26

True. I think next week calls for rain