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Most polluted cities in Uttar Pradesh, India, June 2026

20 cities in Uttar Pradesh, India ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 30 days. Worst: Muzaffarnagar at 59.8 µg/m³, #23 of 2,466 cities in the world. Cleanest: Vrindāvan at 16.5. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

About 5.29M people in these 9 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of June 2026.

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.

← Lucknow 1.92M 1.5M0
Every city in Uttar Pradesh, India ranked for June 2026 with monitors in two or more places, one column each, ranked by people breathing unhealthy air: height is people on an average day, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.
  1. 1Lucknow
    1.92M
  2. 2Kanpur
    1.15M
  3. 3Meerut
    861K
  4. 4Agra
    689K
  5. 5Morādābād
    427K
  6. 6Noida
    196K
  7. 7Varanasi
    43.1K
  8. 8Prayagraj
    0
  9. 9Bareilly
    0
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

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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