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Most polluted cities in West Bengal, India
6 measured cities, last 30 days; 6 above the WHO 24-hour guideline. Worst: Kolkata at 27.8 µg/m³, #134 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 1.22M people in these 2 cities 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.
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
West Bengal 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 |
|---|---|
| Howrah | ≈ 76 µg/m³ |
| Bhātpāra | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Maheshtala | ≈ 76 µg/m³ |
| Shyamnagar | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Rajpur Sonarpur | ≈ 76 µg/m³ |
| Pānihāti | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Kāmārhāti | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Kulti | ≈ 66 µg/m³ |
| Barddhamān | ≈ 87 µg/m³ |
| Bārāsat | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Bāli | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Naihāti | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Uluberiya | ≈ 78 µg/m³ |
| Kharagpur | ≈ 66 µg/m³ |
| Chandannagar | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Baharampur | ≈ 84 µg/m³ |
| Hugli | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Rāiganj | ≈ 55 µg/m³ |
| Malda | ≈ 63 µg/m³ |
| Madhyamgram | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Jāmuria | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Jaigaon | ≈ 43 µg/m³ |
| Medinīpur | ≈ 66 µg/m³ |
| Bālurghāt | ≈ 79 µg/m³ |
| Shāntipur | ≈ 83 µg/m³ |
| Bārākpur | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Krishnanagar | ≈ 81 µg/m³ |
| Basirhat City | ≈ 76 µg/m³ |
| Hābra | ≈ 76 µg/m³ |
| Kānchrāpāra | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Bānkura | ≈ 73 µg/m³ |
| Khardah | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Hālīsahar | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Titāgarh | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Dārjiling | ≈ 22 µg/m³ |
| Dam Dam | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Puruliya | ≈ 88 µg/m³ |
| Bhadreswar | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Rishra | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
| Baidyabāti | ≈ 85 µg/m³ |
Bad-air episodes in West Bengal
- Eastern India, 28 September to 1 October 20264 days15 cities85 µg/m³peak, Dera Colliery Township
- Eastern India, 15 to 17 September 20263 days14 cities79 µg/m³peak, Belpahar
- North-eastern India and Bhutan, September 20264 to 9 September 2026, 6 days15 cities107 µg/m³peak, Bihār Sharīf
- North-eastern India, July 202611 to 14 July 2026, 4 days23 cities149 µg/m³peak, Arrah
- India and Pakistan, October 20258 to 25 October 2025, 18 days178 cities493 µg/m³peak, Jīnd
- Odisha, Bihar and West Bengal, India, August 202512 August 2025, 1 day11 cities83 µg/m³peak, Bhāgalpur
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 West Bengal, India, PM2.5, last 30 days to 6 Oct 2026, 23:00 UTC, smogrank.com/in/region/west-bengal?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.