SmogRank / India / Odisha / Rourkela
Rourkela, month by month
Rourkela has a measured daily mean on 542 days since 19 February 2025. Its worst month was March 2025, at 168 US AQI (79.1 µg/m³), 16th of 2,862 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was August 2026, at 64 US AQI (16.2 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
3 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 6 of 12 days measured; a month needs 9. The others: 5 with no readings from the monitors, 1 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Jan 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. |
| 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.
Rourkela's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | 16879.1 µg/m³ | 16thof 2,862 | Northern India, March and April 2025 India, March 2025 |
| April 2025 | 16270.9 µg/m³ | 11thof 2,951 | Northern India, March and April 2025 |
| December 2025 | 15561.4 µg/m³ | 141stof 3,006 | – |
| February 2026 | 15459.7 µg/m³ | 65thof 2,866 | – |
| November 2025 | 15358.8 µg/m³ | 136thof 2,715 | – |
| March 2026 | 14352.4 µg/m³ | 72ndof 2,971 | – |
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.
Rourkela's worst days
| Day | US AQI | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Sept 2025 | 282207.1 µg/m³ | Eastern India, September 2025 |
| 27 Feb 2025 | 265190.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 28 Mar 2025 | 260185.0 µg/m³ | Northern India, March and April 2025 |
| 25 Mar 2025 | 240165.0 µg/m³ | Northern India, March and April 2025 |
| 29 Mar 2025 | 194116.2 µg/m³ | Northern India, March and April 2025 |
| 14 Mar 2025 | 193115.0 µg/m³ | India, March 2025 |
| 1 Apr 2025 | 192113.3 µg/m³ | Northern India, March and April 2025 |
| 16 Mar 2025 | 186106.0 µg/m³ | – |
| 26 Mar 2025 | 185103.4 µg/m³ | Northern India, March and April 2025 |
| 5 Apr 2025 | 184103.1 µg/m³ | Northern India, March and April 2025 |
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, Rourkela, India, 19 Feb 2025 – 7 Oct 2026. Monitor data from CPCB via OpenAQ; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/in/rourkela/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Rourkela now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 22:07 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).