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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.
About 342K people in these 4 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day over the last 30 days.
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
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 |
|---|---|
| Ujjain | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Punāsa | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Rewa | ≈ 27 µg/m³ |
| Murwāra | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Burhānpur | ≈ 21 µg/m³ |
| Khandwa | ≈ 27 µg/m³ |
| Morena | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Bhind | ≈ 30 µg/m³ |
| Guna | ≈ 20 µg/m³ |
| Shivpuri | ≈ 16 µg/m³ |
| Chhindwāra | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Vidisha | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Chhatarpur | ≈ 19 µg/m³ |
| Mandsaur | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Narmadapuram | ≈ 32 µg/m³ |
| Khargone | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Sehore | ≈ 26 µg/m³ |
| Nagda | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Betūl | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Seoni | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Itārsi | ≈ 32 µg/m³ |
| Datia | ≈ 17 µg/m³ |
| Dhār | ≈ 20 µg/m³ |
| Shahdol | ≈ 25 µg/m³ |
| Kolar | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Sārni | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Bālāghāt | ≈ 37 µg/m³ |
| Ashoknagar | ≈ 20 µg/m³ |
| Mhow | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Tīkamgarh | ≈ 20 µg/m³ |
| Basoda | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Jaora | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Harda | ≈ 27 µg/m³ |
| Sheopur | ≈ 20 µg/m³ |
| Shājāpur | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Bīna | ≈ 23 µg/m³ |
| Bāngarda Chhota | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
| Rāghogarh | ≈ 19 µg/m³ |
| Dabra | ≈ 19 µg/m³ |
| Narsimhapur | ≈ 24 µg/m³ |
Bad-air episodes in Madhya Pradesh
- Northern India, September and October 202630 September to 1 October 2026, 2 days8 cities86 µg/m³peak, Mandideep
- Western India and Pakistan, September 202619 to 25 September 2026, 7 days59 cities170 µg/m³peak, Gurugram
- North-western India, 9 to 20 July 202612 days53 cities215 µg/m³peak, Gurugram
- Northern India, May 202616 to 21 May 2026, 6 days17 cities321 µg/m³peak, Bettiah
- North-western India, 21 to 29 April 20269 days26 cities323 µg/m³peak, Narnaul
- Eastern India, April 202623 to 25 April 2026, 3 days14 cities145 µg/m³peak, Singrauli
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, 22:00 UTC, smogrank.com/in/region/madhya-pradesh?w=30d.
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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.