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Most polluted cities in Andhra Pradesh, India
6 measured cities, this year; 6 above the WHO annual guideline. Worst: Anantapur at 43.0 µg/m³, #62 in the world.
464 monitors in India haven't reported for more than two days. Cities that rely on them are missing from the 24-hour board and may drop from the longer ones; that isn't clean air, and they return when the data does.
About 685K people in this city breathed unhealthy air on an average day so far this year.
Ranked by people: each city's population times its share of unhealthy days, those with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+). That is how many people living there breathed unhealthy air on an average day. Only cities measured at 2 or more places at least 3 km apart are ranked: one monitor shouldn't speak for a whole city. Population is the city itself, not its wider metro area.
- 1Vijayawadalast full day 30 Sept 685K
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
Estimated: cities without a monitor
Andhra Pradesh cities we can't measure, with model estimates for the last 7 days. Listed by population, not ranked: estimates aren't precise enough to rank. Model estimates from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), adjusted to measured cities nearby where there are any. Adjusted, a single day lands within ×1.5 of what a monitor would read about two times in three; unadjusted, it can be off by half or double. Treat them as a guide, not a measurement.
| City | 7-day estimate |
|---|---|
| Visakhapatnam | ≈ 59 µg/m³ |
| Guntur | ≈ 40 µg/m³ |
| Nellore | ≈ 28 µg/m³ |
| Kurnool | ≈ 32 µg/m³ |
| Kākināda | ≈ 34 µg/m³ |
| Gajuwaka | ≈ 59 µg/m³ |
| Vizianagaram | ≈ 58 µg/m³ |
| Eluru | ≈ 43 µg/m³ |
| Nandyāl | ≈ 29 µg/m³ |
| Ongole | ≈ 29 µg/m³ |
| Machilīpatnam | ≈ 30 µg/m³ |
| Adoni | ≈ 31 µg/m³ |
| Madanapalle | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Proddatūr | ≈ 28 µg/m³ |
| Thenali | ≈ 43 µg/m³ |
| Hindupur | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Bhimavaram | ≈ 37 µg/m³ |
| Srikakulam | ≈ 62 µg/m³ |
| Guntakal | ≈ 29 µg/m³ |
| Dharmavaram | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Gudivāda | ≈ 43 µg/m³ |
| Narasaraopet | ≈ 37 µg/m³ |
| Tadepalligudem | ≈ 53 µg/m³ |
| Tadpatri | ≈ 27 µg/m³ |
| Mangalagiri | ≈ 40 µg/m³ |
| Chilakalūrupet | ≈ 33 µg/m³ |
| Emmiganūr | ≈ 30 µg/m³ |
| Chīrāla | ≈ 36 µg/m³ |
| Rayachoti | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Kāvali | ≈ 27 µg/m³ |
| Kadiri | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Anakapalle | ≈ 59 µg/m³ |
| Palakollu | ≈ 37 µg/m³ |
| Srikalahasti | ≈ 29 µg/m³ |
| Tanuku | ≈ 53 µg/m³ |
| Gūdūr | ≈ 28 µg/m³ |
| Mārkāpur | ≈ 28 µg/m³ |
| Bāpatla | ≈ 36 µg/m³ |
| Badvel | ≈ 28 µg/m³ |
| Attili | ≈ 53 µg/m³ |
Bad-air episodes in Andhra Pradesh
- India, September and October 202630 September to 1 October 2026, 2 days17 cities86 µg/m³peak, Ankleshwar
- Southern India, November 202511 to 14 November 2025, 4 days12 cities119 µg/m³peak, Neelankarai
- India and Pakistan, October 20258 to 25 October 2025, 18 days178 cities493 µg/m³peak, Jīnd
- Southern India, 12 to 14 October 20253 days12 cities114 µg/m³peak, Chittoor
- Southern India, 7 to 8 October 20252 days9 cities97 µg/m³peak, Chittoor
- India, 5 to 6 August 20252 days10 cities62 µg/m³peak, Jhānsi
Times when many cities around here had PM2.5 at twice their usual or more on the same days.
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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Andhra Pradesh, India, PM2.5, this year to 6 Oct 2026, 22:00 UTC, smogrank.com/in/region/andhra-pradesh?w=year.
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Updated 2026-10-06 22:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.