SmogRank / India / Maharashtra / Nagpur
Nagpur, month by month
Nagpur has a measured daily mean on 555 days since 19 February 2025. Its worst month was February 2026, at 164 US AQI (73.7 µg/m³), 31st of 2,866 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was July 2026, at 70 US AQI (19.2 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.
Nagpur's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | 16473.7 µg/m³ | 31stof 2,866 | – |
| November 2025 | 16270.8 µg/m³ | 93rdof 2,715 | North-western India, November 2025 |
| December 2025 | 15763.9 µg/m³ | 130thof 3,006 | – |
| March 2025 | 15257.5 µg/m³ | 51stof 2,862 | – |
| April 2025 | 14553.4 µg/m³ | 30thof 2,951 | – |
| March 2026 | 12745.9 µg/m³ | 105thof 2,971 | – |
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.
Nagpur's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Nov 2025 | 186105.5 µg/m³ | North-western India, November 2025 |
| 2 Jan 2026 | 184102.5 µg/m³ | – |
| 22 Feb 2026 | 184102.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 25 Nov 2025 | 18198.3 µg/m³ | North-western India, November 2025 |
| 1 Jan 2026 | 18198.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 19 Nov 2025 | 18197.8 µg/m³ | North-western India, November 2025 |
| 24 Jan 2026 | 18096.6 µg/m³ | – |
| 14 Feb 2026 | 18096.5 µg/m³ | – |
| 26 Nov 2025 | 17995.2 µg/m³ | – |
| 21 Nov 2025 | 17994.8 µg/m³ | North-western India, November 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, Nagpur, India, 19 Feb 2025 – 7 Oct 2026. Monitor data from CPCB via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/in/nagpur/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Nagpur now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 21:07 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).