SmogRank / India / Telangana / Hyderabad
Hyderabad, month by month
Hyderabad has a measured daily mean on 1,239 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was November 2024, at 176 US AQI (91.1 µg/m³), 7th of 2,624 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was July 2024, at 56 US AQI (11.7 µg/m³). 2025 averaged 107 US AQI (38.1 µg/m³), against 115 US AQI (41.0 µg/m³) in 2024.
Every month since 2023
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
4 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). |
| Dec 2024 | 20 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 11 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Mar 2023 | 2 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 20 missing from OpenAQ's archive, 9 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2023 | 3 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Hyderabad's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| November 2024 | 17691.1 µg/m³ | 7thof 2,624 |
| December 2023 | 17082.4 µg/m³ | 14thof 2,247 |
| January 2025 | 16879.6 µg/m³ | 15thof 2,474 |
| January 2024 | 16575.0 µg/m³ | 13thof 2,385 |
| November 2023 | 16473.8 µg/m³ | 8thof 2,243 |
| January 2023 | 16473.6 µg/m³ | 16thof 1,261 |
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.
Hyderabad's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 18 Nov 2023 | 298223.0 µg/m³ |
| 13 Nov 2023 | 263188.0 µg/m³ |
| 12 Nov 2023 | 228153.0 µg/m³ |
| 24 Dec 2023 | 218143.0 µg/m³ |
| 22 Dec 2023 | 217142.0 µg/m³ |
| 25 Dec 2023 | 216141.0 µg/m³ |
| 26 Dec 2023 | 210135.0 µg/m³ |
| 11 Jan 2023 | 209134.0 µg/m³ |
| 24 Nov 2024 | 204129.0 µg/m³ |
| 23 Nov 2024 | 202127.0 µg/m³ |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; 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, Hyderabad, India, 1 Jan 2023 – 7 Oct 2026. Monitor data from CPCB via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/in/hyderabad/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Hyderabad now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 22:07 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).