SmogRank / Aurangābād / Sasarām
Aurangābād vs Sasarām: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Aurangābād's air was 43% more polluted than Sasarām's: PM2.5 averaged 46.5 µg/m³ against 32.5, on the 104 days both cities were measured. Aurangābād had the dirtier air on 53 of those days, Sasarām on 51. Aurangābād was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 80 of them, Sasarām on 95.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Aurangābād | Sasarām | Days Aurangābād was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 99 | 89 | 22 |
| 2025 | 152 | 131 | 74 |
Means in US AQI over the days both cities were measured that year; a year shows once they share 30 such days.
Each city's worst days
Aurangābād
- 23 Nov 2025500+572.0 µg/m³
- 8 Jan 2026500+468.0 µg/m³
- 24 Nov 2025491321.0 µg/m³
Sasarām
- 22 Aug 2026283208.0 µg/m³
- 12 Dec 2025189109.0 µg/m³
- 23 Aug 202617184.2 µg/m³
Daily means in US AQI, with µg/m³ beside them, since the index stops at its top value, over the days both cities were measured in the last year. Each date opens that day's world board.
Compare either city with another
Aurangābād
Side by side with Jīnd (India's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Sasarām
Side by side with Jīnd (India's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Aurangābād and Sasarām, 9 Oct 2025 – 8 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/in-aurangabad-bihar/in-sasaram (accessed 8 Oct 2026).
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The same rules as every SmogRank figure: reference monitors first, and a day counts with 18 measured hours. How we measure.
Updated 2026-10-08 20:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).