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Most polluted cities in Maharashtra, India, March 2026

29 cities in Maharashtra, India ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Birvādi at 61.4 µg/m³, #43 of 2,947 cities in the world. Cleanest: Parbhani at 25.8. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

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.

← Birvādi 93% 90%0
Every city in Maharashtra, India ranked for March 2026, 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.
  1. 1Birvādi
    93%
  2. 2Jalgaon
    93%
  3. 3Pimpri-Chinchwad
    87%
  4. 4Sholapur
    83%
  5. 5Pune
    83%
  6. 6Nashik
    83%
  7. 7Akola
    83%
  8. 8Sāngli
    83%
  9. 9Nanded
    80%
  10. 10Badlapur
    79%
  11. 11Dhule
    79%
  12. 12Kalyān
    77%
  13. 13Taloje
    76%
  14. 14Nagpur
    73%
  15. 15Chānda
    72%
  16. 16Bhiwandi
    70%
  17. 17Latur
    70%
  18. 18Wadgaon Kolhati
    68%
  19. 19Panvel
    62%
  20. 20Padoli
    53%
  21. 21Aurangabad
    50%
  22. 22Kolhāpur
    50%
  23. 23Boisar
    48%
  24. 24Amravati
    43%
  25. 25Bhayandar
    38%
  26. 26Virār
    36%
  27. 27Thāne
    33%
  28. 28Mumbai
    33%
  29. 29Parbhani
    26%
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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