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Most polluted cities in Telangana, India
4 measured cities, last 30 days; 4 above the WHO 24-hour guideline. Worst: Patancheru at 36.2 µg/m³, #75 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 0 people in this city 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.
Cities coloured by their PM2.5 over the last 24 hours. Fires, smoke and ash: Oct 5, the newest UTC day mapped.
- 1Hyderabadlast full day 30 Sept 0
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
Telangana 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 |
|---|---|
| Warangal | ≈ 50 µg/m³ |
| Rāmgundam | ≈ 54 µg/m³ |
| Kukatpally | ≈ 41 µg/m³ |
| Nizāmābād | ≈ 36 µg/m³ |
| Mulugu | ≈ 39 µg/m³ |
| Karīmnagar | ≈ 56 µg/m³ |
| Lal Bahadur Nagar | ≈ 41 µg/m³ |
| Ramagundam | ≈ 54 µg/m³ |
| Secunderabad | ≈ 41 µg/m³ |
| Khammam | ≈ 42 µg/m³ |
| Mahbūbnagar | ≈ 34 µg/m³ |
| Nalgonda | ≈ 41 µg/m³ |
| Malkajgiri | ≈ 41 µg/m³ |
| Ādilābād | ≈ 38 µg/m³ |
| Uppal Kalan | ≈ 41 µg/m³ |
| Suriāpet | ≈ 44 µg/m³ |
| Miryalaguda | ≈ 40 µg/m³ |
| Jagtiāl | ≈ 51 µg/m³ |
| Mancherial | ≈ 54 µg/m³ |
| Nirmal | ≈ 39 µg/m³ |
| Sirsilla | ≈ 45 µg/m³ |
| Kāmāreddi | ≈ 39 µg/m³ |
| Palwancha | ≈ 35 µg/m³ |
| Kottagūdem | ≈ 35 µg/m³ |
| Bodhan | ≈ 36 µg/m³ |
| Pāloncha | ≈ 35 µg/m³ |
| Sangāreddi | ≈ 38 µg/m³ |
| Zahirābād | ≈ 34 µg/m³ |
| Siddipet | ≈ 42 µg/m³ |
| Bellampalli | ≈ 40 µg/m³ |
| Koratla | ≈ 51 µg/m³ |
| Mandamarri | ≈ 54 µg/m³ |
| Tandur | ≈ 33 µg/m³ |
| Kodār | ≈ 40 µg/m³ |
| Āmūr | ≈ 40 µg/m³ |
| Gadwāl | ≈ 35 µg/m³ |
| Wanparti | ≈ 33 µg/m³ |
| Kagaznāgār | ≈ 40 µg/m³ |
| Gaddi Annaram | ≈ 41 µg/m³ |
| Khanapuram Haveli | ≈ 42 µg/m³ |
Bad-air episodes in Telangana
- India, September and October 202630 September to 1 October 2026, 2 days17 cities86 µg/m³peak, Ankleshwar
- Northern India, May 202616 to 21 May 2026, 6 days17 cities321 µg/m³peak, Bettiah
- India and Pakistan, October 20258 to 25 October 2025, 18 days178 cities493 µg/m³peak, Jīnd
- India, 5 to 6 August 20252 days10 cities62 µg/m³peak, Jhānsi
- India, July 202510 to 12 July 2025, 3 days17 cities238 µg/m³peak, Surat
- Western and southern India, May 202520 May 2025, 1 day8 cities98 µg/m³peak, Kadapa
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 Telangana, India, PM2.5, last 30 days to 6 Oct 2026, 23:00 UTC, smogrank.com/in/region/telangana?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.