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Cities in India, worst air first, day by day

Each measured city's average over the 30 days to every day since January 2023, worst first. Find your own city to follow it through the race, or keep to one country.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to9 Jan 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in India for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 9 Jan 2026: Noida 247.3 µg/m³, Dādri 228.2 µg/m³ and Narela 227.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1NoidaUttar Pradesh247.3
  2. 2DādriUttar Pradesh228.2
  3. 3NarelaDelhi227.3
  4. 4BawānaDelhi224.8
  5. 5DelhiDelhi217.2
  6. 6GhāziābādUttar Pradesh179.3
  7. 7GurugramHaryana166.1
  8. 8DhāruheraHaryana165.3
  9. 9Greater NoidaUttar Pradesh164.5
  10. 10MeerutUttar Pradesh161.0
  11. 11Dera MāndiDelhi151.2
  12. 12GummidipundiTamil Nadu149.8
  13. 13NajafgarhDelhi147.7
  14. 14Aya NagarDelhi142.6
  15. 15BhiwadiRajasthan136.7
  16. 16Dera Colliery TownshipOdisha135.9
  17. 17BaddiHimachal Pradesh131.5
  18. 18MuzaffarnagarUttar Pradesh128.6
  19. 19BāghpatUttar Pradesh128.1
  20. 20BahadurgarhHaryana125.6

+ 223 more cities, 124.4 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Loni since 7 Jan 2026, Yamuna Nagar since 2 Dec 2025, Rohtak since 29 Nov 2025 and Nagapattinam since 11 Nov 2025.

30 days7 days
GoodModerateSensitive groupsUnhealthyVery unhealthyHazardousWHO 24-hour guideline, 15 µg/m³Fades where it stood: not counted that day

A city's number is its average over the 30 days, shown only when 21 of them were measured (5 of 7 on the 7-day race), the same minimum as the 30- and 7-day boards. A city whose monitors go quiet fades out where it stood rather than sliding down, so a gap never reads as cleaner air. Some large countries are thin or missing because their monitors' licences don't allow reuse. How we rank.

Not covered: the government monitoring networks of China and Turkey, which publish only on their own websites; we are building the readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.