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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.

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The 30 days to8 Jun 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in India for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 8 Jun 2026: Charkhi Dādri 105.9 µg/m³, Panipat 90.5 µg/m³ and Jīnd 84.9 µg/m³.

  1. 1Charkhi DādriHaryana105.9
  2. 2PanipatHaryana90.5
  3. 3JīndHaryana84.9
  4. 4DispurAssam79.9
  5. 5FaridabadHaryana79.0
  6. 6LoniUttar Pradesh78.4
  7. 7MānesarHaryana76.5
  8. 8BhiwāniHaryana76.4
  9. 9DhāruheraHaryana73.2
  10. 10KarnālHaryana72.6
  11. 11BahadurgarhHaryana72.6
  12. 12NarelaDelhi71.3
  13. 13KaithalHaryana71.3
  14. 14GurugramHaryana71.2
  15. 15SingrauliMadhya Pradesh69.4
  16. 16HāpurUttar Pradesh68.5
  17. 17AmbālaHaryana68.0
  18. 18MandideepMadhya Pradesh67.7
  19. 19DādriUttar Pradesh66.2
  20. 20MuzaffarnagarUttar Pradesh65.9

+ 204 more cities, 64.4 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Gobindgarh since 28 May 2026, Sonīpat since 19 May 2026, Bilāspur since 14 May 2026 and Samāstipur since 10 Apr 2026.

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.