SmogRank / India / Uttarakhand / Rishīkesh
Rishīkesh, month by month
Rishīkesh has a measured daily mean on 428 days since 19 February 2025. Its worst month was November 2025, at 114 US AQI (40.6 µg/m³), 209th of 2,715 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was September 2026, at 7 US AQI (1.2 µg/m³).
Every month since 2025
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
Months without a mean, and why
8 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | No day measured. The others: 5 with no readings from the monitor, 1 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours), 5 with readings left out by our checks. |
| Jul 2026 | 21 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 10 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2026 | 17 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 13 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jan 2026 | 13 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 18 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Dec 2025 | 21 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 10 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Sep 2025 | 13 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 17 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Jun 2025 | 12 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 18 with under 18 hours of readings or readings that failed our checks. |
| Feb 2025 | 10 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Rishīkesh's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | 11440.6 µg/m³ | 209thof 2,715 | – |
| April 2025 | 10537.3 µg/m³ | 108thof 2,951 | North-western India and Pakistan, April and May 2025 North-western India, 20 to 22 April 2025and 3 more |
| March 2025 | 8627.8 µg/m³ | 350thof 2,862 | Northern India, March and April 2025 North-western India, 26 to 28 March 2025 |
| May 2025 | 8426.7 µg/m³ | 175thof 2,826 | North-western India, 20 to 22 May 2025 North-western India and Pakistan, April and May 2025 |
| October 2025 | 7622.6 µg/m³ | 244thof 2,614 | – |
| August 2025 | 5410.8 µg/m³ | 1,044thof 2,901 | – |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Rishīkesh's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2025 | 18197.6 µg/m³ | Northern India, March and April 2025 North-western India, 26 to 28 March 2025 |
| 31 Dec 2025 | 16677.2 µg/m³ | – |
| 28 Dec 2025 | 16373.3 µg/m³ | – |
| 19 May 2025 | 16372.8 µg/m³ | – |
| 29 Apr 2025 | 15967.1 µg/m³ | North-western India and Pakistan, April and May 2025 |
| 30 Dec 2025 | 15764.5 µg/m³ | – |
| 2 Nov 2025 | 15764.1 µg/m³ | – |
| 22 Nov 2025 | 15763.7 µg/m³ | – |
| 8 Apr 2025 | 15763.5 µg/m³ | North-western India, 6 to 8 April 2025 |
| 3 Nov 2025 | 15663.0 µg/m³ | – |
Daily means, the highest since 19 Feb 2025; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Rishīkesh, India, 19 Feb 2025 – 27 Sep 2026. Monitor data from CPCB via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/in/rishikesh/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Rishīkesh now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 17:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).