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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 to8 Jul 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in India for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 8 Jul 2026: Gurugram 112.1 µg/m³, Panipat 106.4 µg/m³ and Karnāl 75.7 µg/m³.

  1. 1GurugramHaryana112.1
  2. 2PanipatHaryana106.4
  3. 3KarnālHaryana75.7
  4. 4BahadurgarhHaryana75.4
  5. 5BhiwāniHaryana71.1
  6. 6RoparPunjab69.5
  7. 7NohanPunjab69.5
  8. 8Charkhi DādriHaryana68.5
  9. 9MānesarHaryana68.5
  10. 10JīndHaryana68.1
  11. 11FaridabadHaryana62.2
  12. 12NarnaulHaryana60.5
  13. 13BhiwadiRajasthan58.8
  14. 14BawānaDelhi57.3
  15. 15MuzaffarnagarUttar Pradesh56.1
  16. 16GummidipundiTamil Nadu54.6
  17. 17NarelaDelhi53.8
  18. 18ThānesarHaryana51.8
  19. 19DispurAssam51.4
  20. 20DhāruheraHaryana51.4

+ 189 more cities, 48.7 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Dera Colliery Township since 8 Jul 2026, Pāli since 7 Jul 2026, Sonīpat since 5 Jul 2026 and 7 more cities.

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.