SmogRank / India / Jharkhand / Jharia
Jharia, month by month
Jharia has a measured daily mean on 157 days since 29 November 2025. Its worst month was April 2026, at 120 US AQI (43.4 µg/m³), 102nd of 2,941 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was July 2026, at 92 US AQI (31.1 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
7 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 6 of 12 days measured; a month needs 9. The others: 5 with no readings from the monitor, 1 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Sep 2026 | 18 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 9 with no readings from the monitor, 3 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Mar 2026 | 5 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 26 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2026 | No day measured. The others: 28 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jan 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Dec 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Nov 2025 | 1 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 1 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Jharia's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | 12043.4 µg/m³ | 102ndof 2,941 | Eastern India, April 2026 |
| May 2026 | 11039.0 µg/m³ | 110thof 2,874 | – |
| August 2026 | 10236.1 µg/m³ | 66thof 2,896 | – |
| June 2026 | 9432.3 µg/m³ | 124thof 2,497 | – |
| July 2026 | 9231.1 µg/m³ | 127thof 2,784 | – |
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.
Jharia's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2026 | 193115.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 5 Jun 2026 | 191113.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 4 Apr 2026 | 184103.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 24 Apr 2026 | 17792.3 µg/m³ | Eastern India, April 2026 |
| 19 May 2026 | 15256.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 3 Apr 2026 | 14954.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 23 Apr 2026 | 14854.7 µg/m³ | Eastern India, April 2026 |
| 27 May 2026 | 14252.2 µg/m³ | – |
| 22 Apr 2026 | 13950.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 29 May 2026 | 13449.0 µg/m³ | – |
Daily means, the highest since 29 Nov 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, Jharia, India, 29 Nov 2025 – 7 Oct 2026. Monitor data from CPCB via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/in/jharia/history (accessed 13 Oct 2026).
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Jharia now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-13 00:07 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).