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Most polluted cities in Gujarat, India

3 measured cities, this year; 3 above the WHO annual guideline. Worst: Ahmedabad at 39.7 µg/m³, #76 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 3.19M people in these 2 cities 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.

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

Gujarat 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	Band
Vadodara	≈ 36 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Rājkot	≈ 17 µg/m³	Moderate
Bhavnagar	≈ 20 µg/m³	Moderate
Jamnagar	≈ 15 µg/m³	Moderate
Bilimora	≈ 41 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Jūnāgadh	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Gāndhīdhām	≈ 13 µg/m³	Moderate
Nadiād	≈ 35 µg/m³	Moderate
Morvi	≈ 14 µg/m³	Moderate
Anand	≈ 39 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Mahesāna	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Surendranagar	≈ 14 µg/m³	Moderate
Verāval	≈ 16 µg/m³	Moderate
Navsari	≈ 41 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Bharūch	≈ 25 µg/m³	Moderate
Porbandar	≈ 14 µg/m³	Moderate
Bhuj	≈ 12 µg/m³	Moderate
Godhra	≈ 25 µg/m³	Moderate
Pālanpur	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Valsād	≈ 41 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Kalol	≈ 26 µg/m³	Moderate
Pātan	≈ 15 µg/m³	Moderate
Botad	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Vejalpur	≈ 25 µg/m³	Moderate
Dohad	≈ 21 µg/m³	Moderate
Jetpur	≈ 21 µg/m³	Moderate
Amreli	≈ 20 µg/m³	Moderate
Gondal	≈ 18 µg/m³	Moderate
Deesa	≈ 14 µg/m³	Moderate
Khambhāt	≈ 39 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Mahuva	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Sānand	≈ 26 µg/m³	Moderate
Anjār	≈ 13 µg/m³	Moderate
Dhoraji	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Kadi	≈ 26 µg/m³	Moderate
Vijalpor	≈ 41 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Himatnagar	≈ 26 µg/m³	Moderate
Dholka	≈ 26 µg/m³	Moderate
Savarkundla	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Kundla	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate

Bad-air episodes in Gujarat

• India, September and October 202630 September to 1 October 2026, 2 days17 cities86 µg/m³peak, Ankleshwar
• Western India and Pakistan, September 202619 to 25 September 2026, 7 days59 cities170 µg/m³peak, Gurugram
• India, March 20267 to 8 March 2026, 2 days13 cities178 µg/m³peak, Mandideep
• North-western India, November 202518 to 25 November 2025, 8 days29 cities349 µg/m³peak, Dādri
• India and Pakistan, October 20258 to 25 October 2025, 18 days178 cities493 µg/m³peak, Jīnd
• Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, India, September 202510 to 14 September 2025, 5 days15 cities127 µg/m³peak, Virār

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 Gujarat, India, PM2.5, this year to 6 Oct 2026, 22:00 UTC, smogrank.com/in/region/gujarat?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.