SmogRank / India / Maharashtra / Aurangabad
Aurangabad, month by month
Aurangabad has a measured daily mean on 548 days since 19 February 2025. Its worst month was February 2026, at 137 US AQI (50.3 µg/m³), 104th of 2,866 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was August 2025, at 65 US AQI (16.8 µg/m³).
Every month since 2025
The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales
Months without a mean, and why
3 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 6 of 12 days measured; a month needs 9. The others: 5 with no readings from the monitors, 1 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Jan 2026 | 21 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 10 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2025 | 10 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Aurangabad's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | 13750.3 µg/m³ | 104thof 2,866 | – |
| October 2025 | 13750.0 µg/m³ | 82ndof 2,614 | India and Pakistan, October 2025 |
| December 2025 | 13348.4 µg/m³ | 210thof 3,006 | – |
| March 2025 | 13047.1 µg/m³ | 104thof 2,862 | – |
| November 2025 | 12444.7 µg/m³ | 190thof 2,715 | – |
| April 2025 | 10738.1 µg/m³ | 102ndof 2,951 | – |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Aurangabad's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Jan 2026 | 18197.9 µg/m³ | – |
| 11 Oct 2025 | 17284.9 µg/m³ | India and Pakistan, October 2025 |
| 21 Oct 2025 | 16981.1 µg/m³ | India and Pakistan, October 2025 |
| 9 Oct 2025 | 16880.2 µg/m³ | India and Pakistan, October 2025 |
| 24 Jan 2026 | 16778.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 23 Oct 2025 | 16778.1 µg/m³ | India and Pakistan, October 2025 |
| 3 Jan 2026 | 16777.9 µg/m³ | – |
| 10 Oct 2025 | 16777.7 µg/m³ | India and Pakistan, October 2025 |
| 14 Sept 2025 | 16677.5 µg/m³ | Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, India, September 2025 |
| 13 Oct 2025 | 16575.4 µg/m³ | India and Pakistan, October 2025 |
Daily means, the highest since 19 Feb 2025; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Aurangabad, India, 19 Feb 2025 – 7 Oct 2026. Monitor data from CPCB via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/in/aurangabad/history (accessed 13 Oct 2026).
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Aurangabad now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-13 01:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).