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Most polluted cities in Madhya Pradesh, India

11 measured cities, last 30 days; 11 above the WHO 24-hour guideline. Worst: Pithampur at 55.8 µg/m³, #17 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.

Ranked by unhealthy days: the share of each city's measured days with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse on the US EPA's scale. Ties go to the higher average.

Each dot is a measured city, coloured by its PM2.5; tap a dot to open the city.

← Pithampur 87% 80%0

Every measured city in Madhya Pradesh, India, one column each, ranked by unhealthy days: height is the share of its measured days that were unhealthy, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.

1Pithampurlast full day 30 Sept 87%
2Mandideeplast full day 30 Sept 57%
3Mānpurlast full day 28 Sept 32%
4Dewaslast full day 30 Sept 28%
5Saugorlast full day 30 Sept 27%
6Gwaliorlast full day 30 Sept 12%
7Bhopallast full day 30 Sept 12%
8Ratlāmlast full day 30 Sept 4%
9Satnalast full day 30 Sept 0%
10Jabalpurlast full day 30 Sept 0%
11Indorelast full day 30 Sept 0%

Good0–50

Moderate51–100

Sensitive groups101–150

Unhealthy151–200

Very unhealthy201–300

Hazardous301+

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

Madhya 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	Band
Ujjain	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Punāsa	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Rewa	≈ 27 µg/m³	Moderate
Murwāra	≈ 22 µg/m³	Moderate
Burhānpur	≈ 21 µg/m³	Moderate
Khandwa	≈ 27 µg/m³	Moderate
Morena	≈ 22 µg/m³	Moderate
Bhind	≈ 30 µg/m³	Moderate
Guna	≈ 20 µg/m³	Moderate
Shivpuri	≈ 16 µg/m³	Moderate
Chhindwāra	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Vidisha	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Chhatarpur	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Mandsaur	≈ 22 µg/m³	Moderate
Narmadapuram	≈ 32 µg/m³	Moderate
Khargone	≈ 22 µg/m³	Moderate
Sehore	≈ 26 µg/m³	Moderate
Nagda	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Betūl	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Seoni	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Itārsi	≈ 32 µg/m³	Moderate
Datia	≈ 17 µg/m³	Moderate
Dhār	≈ 20 µg/m³	Moderate
Shahdol	≈ 25 µg/m³	Moderate
Kolar	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Sārni	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Bālāghāt	≈ 37 µg/m³	Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Ashoknagar	≈ 20 µg/m³	Moderate
Mhow	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Tīkamgarh	≈ 20 µg/m³	Moderate
Basoda	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Jaora	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Harda	≈ 27 µg/m³	Moderate
Sheopur	≈ 20 µg/m³	Moderate
Shājāpur	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Bīna	≈ 23 µg/m³	Moderate
Bāngarda Chhota	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate
Rāghogarh	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Dabra	≈ 19 µg/m³	Moderate
Narsimhapur	≈ 24 µg/m³	Moderate

Bad-air episodes in Madhya Pradesh

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 Madhya Pradesh, India, PM2.5, last 30 days to 6 Oct 2026, 23:00 UTC, smogrank.com/in/region/madhya-pradesh?w=30d.

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Updated 2026-10-06 23:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.