SmogRank / World / India / Maharashtra / December 2024
Most polluted cities in Maharashtra, India, December 2024
1 city in Maharashtra, India ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. The only one: Mumbai at 87.0 µg/m³, #12 of 2,573 cities in the world. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
Maharashtra has 26 cities ranked over the last 30 days, but only 1 here: most of its monitors have no readings for December 2024 in OpenAQ's archive, where ours come from, or too few to rank. Cities missing from this board weren't clean, just not measured.
About 12.7M people in this city breathed unhealthy air on an average day of December 2024.
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.
- 1Mumbai 12.7M
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
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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Maharashtra, India, PM2.5, December 2024, smogrank.com/in/region/maharashtra/history/2024-12 (accessed 7 Oct 2026).
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