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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 Oct 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in India for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 9 Oct 2026: Jīnd 74.3 µg/m³, Gurugram 74.0 µg/m³ and Gobindgarh 70.6 µg/m³.

  1. 1JīndHaryana74.3
  2. 2GurugramHaryana74.0
  3. 3GobindgarhPunjab70.6
  4. 4BawānaDelhi66.3
  5. 5Dera MāndiDelhi61.4
  6. 6DādriUttar Pradesh60.2
  7. 7JammuJammu and Kashmir60.1
  8. 8LoniUttar Pradesh57.6
  9. 9BhiwadiRajasthan56.8
  10. 10NoidaUttar Pradesh56.5
  11. 11PithampurMadhya Pradesh55.3
  12. 12BahadurgarhHaryana53.7
  13. 13GhāziābādUttar Pradesh53.1
  14. 14Charkhi DādriHaryana52.8
  15. 15NarelaDelhi51.4
  16. 16PāliRajasthan50.1
  17. 17AmbālaHaryana49.1
  18. 18JalandharPunjab48.7
  19. 19HisarHaryana48.7
  20. 20KaithalHaryana48.6

+ 166 more cities, 48.6 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Baddi since 9 Oct 2026, Mānesar since 9 Oct 2026, Nanded since 8 Oct 2026 and 11 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.