Making Sense Bali
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The air where you are · live
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µg/m³ · PM2.5 · reading the network…
Reading the air across Bali…
Sensors around you

Your coordinates never leave this browser. The page downloads every station in Bali and measures the distances here, on your device — nothing about where you are is sent anywhere.

What's going on

Waiting for live readings.

The WHO's line is 15 µg/m³ averaged over a whole day. One reading is a moment, not a day, and we label a peak as a peak.

What to do now

Outside · on the road

    Inside

      This advice comes from what about 240 residents of the Bali Air Dispatch community tested for themselves, written up in our community knowledge. It is not medical advice.

      Add a sensor

      Put a sensor where the map is empty.

      Coverage matters most where there is none. Sanur, Ubud and Gianyar have all asked for sensors.

      What the community runs

      AirGradient Open Air

      Most of the outdoor sensors on this map are AirGradient. Open source, made to be repaired, and it becomes the trusted sensor for your area.

      • PM2.5, CO₂, TVOC, NOx, temperature and humidity
      • About USD 125 as a kit or USD 225 assembled (airgradient.com, September 2026)
      • About 2.5 weeks from Thailand, with duty prepaid at 19.2%
      • Turn on public sharing, or it is invisible to everyone else
      Made in Bali · open · not for profit

      The Fab Lab Bali node

      Designed and built at Fab Lab Bali. Open hardware and firmware, no company behind it and nothing to sell, and a fraction of the price.

      • Parts about USD 35–60 from local stock. No soldering, two Grove cables
      • PM2.5 on its own screen, its own record on a memory card, a buzzer when it detects burning
      • Publishes to this map. Spends its first week next to a trusted sensor, and is marked DIY
      • Build one in an afternoon at a Fab Lab Bali workshop

      Already have an AirGradient or PurpleAir? Turn on public sharing and it appears here. Work somewhere with a reference-grade monitor, such as a university, a hospital or BMKG? Write to us. One week of a sensor sitting beside yours would let us check every reading in this network, and it is the biggest thing the network is missing.

      Act together

      Clean air is decided street by street.

      Over four months and 2,900 messages, about 240 residents worked out what actually gets burning stopped. Join them, and start where it works.

      Join the WhatsApp community ↗
      1. Your neighbour

        In person, not through a report. Ask what happens to their rubbish before you mention health, then talk about the children. Show the number on your phone, and bring a route with you: a compost bag costs about IDR 60k.

      2. The banjar

        What a klian needs is somewhere for the waste to go. Organic waste is about two-thirds of it, so start there: composting, Bank Sampah, TPS3R. Enforcement without a route only moves the fire.

      3. The regency (DLH)

        The environment office has the legal power. Bring your numbers and how you measured them, make numbered asks, and ask for an inspection while the burning is happening.

      4. SP4N-LAPOR

        File at the same time as the regency. It can be anonymous and gives you a ticket number to follow. Many separate complaints count for more than one letter.

      Two things the community learned the hard way. Say what the data shows, never who caused it: no sensor in Bali can name a source yet. And if you are a foreign resident, take advice before organising anything public, and let Indonesian residents lead it.

      Five minutes? Tell us what matters where you live. Eight questions, and the answers decide where the next sensors go.