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Most polluted cities in Maharashtra, India, August 2026

28 cities in Maharashtra, India ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Kalyān at 33.9 µg/m³, #81 of 2,866 cities in the world. Cleanest: Badlapur at 8.4. 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.

← Kalyān 31% 30%0
Every city in Maharashtra, India ranked for August 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. 1Kalyān
    31%
  2. 2Chānda
    11%
  3. 3Thāne
    8%
  4. 4Boisar
    4%
  5. 5Bhiwandi
    4%
  6. 6Aurangabad
    0%
  7. 7Nagpur
    0%
  8. 8Taloje
    0%
  9. 8Nanded
    0%
  10. 10Akola
    0%
  11. 11Jalgaon
    0%
  12. 12Pune
    0%
  13. 13Latur
    0%
  14. 14Pimpri-Chinchwad
    0%
  15. 15Birvādi
    0%
  16. 16Sholapur
    0%
  17. 17Dhule
    0%
  18. 18Amravati
    0%
  19. 19Bhayandar
    0%
  20. 20Sāngli
    0%
  21. 20Kolhāpur
    0%
  22. 22Panvel
    0%
  23. 23Nashik
    0%
  24. 24Mumbai
    0%
  25. 25Parbhani
    0%
  26. 26Ahilyanagar
    0%
  27. 27Virār
    0%
  28. 28Badlapur
    0%
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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