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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 to7 Oct 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in India for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 7 Oct 2026: Jīnd 73.7 µg/m³, Gurugram 71.7 µg/m³ and Gobindgarh 70.4 µg/m³.

  1. 1JīndHaryana73.7
  2. 2GurugramHaryana71.7
  3. 3GobindgarhPunjab70.4
  4. 4BawānaDelhi68.8
  5. 5MānesarHaryana61.9
  6. 6JammuJammu and Kashmir61.0
  7. 7Dera MāndiDelhi59.6
  8. 8DādriUttar Pradesh59.0
  9. 9LoniUttar Pradesh57.1
  10. 10BhiwadiRajasthan56.8
  11. 11NoidaUttar Pradesh56.1
  12. 12PithampurMadhya Pradesh55.8
  13. 13Charkhi DādriHaryana52.7
  14. 14BahadurgarhHaryana52.3
  15. 15GhāziābādUttar Pradesh52.1
  16. 16NarelaDelhi50.5
  17. 17KaithalHaryana49.4
  18. 18AmritsarPunjab49.4
  19. 19JalandharPunjab49.3
  20. 20PāliRajasthan49.2

+ 184 more cities, 49.2 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Yamuna Nagar since 7 Oct 2026, Dispur since 7 Oct 2026, Dhāruhera since 6 Oct 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.