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Every city CPCB measures

Name: Air quality index for every reporting city in India
Creator: Swechha
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262 cities reported an air quality index at 16:00 IST, 5 October 2026. 123 of them are above the limit India set for itself. This is all of them, read together in one hour, worst first.

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262

cities reporting

across 31 states and union territories

495

stations behind them

196 cities are a single monitor

123

above AQI 100

the limit India set for itself

read “Good”

the country is not uniformly polluted

The number a city is ranked on is its worst monitor, named in the feed. CPCB itself publishes a city average, and that figure is on every row beside it. They are different questions and this page answers both.

All 262 cities, and where they sit

Every figure below was read at 16:00 IST, 5 October 2026 — one hour, all 495 stations together, which is what makes them comparable, and the same hour as the reading at the top of Delhi’s air. The order is a reading of that hour, not a standing claim: by the time you read it, CPCB has published another.

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All 262 cities

Every city reporting to CPCB at 16:00 IST, 5 October 2026, ranked by its worst monitor. Columns: rank, city and state, worst monitor AQI, city average AQI, band and governing pollutant, number of stations.
#	City	Worst	Mean	Band	St.
1	GhaziabadUttar Pradesh	347	181	Very Poor	6
2	NoidaUttar Pradesh	329	268	Very Poor	4
3	GurugramHaryana	298	191	Poor	4
4	DelhiDelhi	278	184	Poor	44
5	GajraulaUttar Pradesh	260	260	Poor	1
6	MuzaffarnagarUttar Pradesh	251	251	Poor	1
7	BulandshahrUttar Pradesh	244	244	Poor	1
8	MoradabadUttar Pradesh	235	170	Poor	6
9	KolkataWest Bengal	231	144	Poor	7
10	FaridabadHaryana	215	121	Poor	2
11	KurukshetraHaryana	204	204	Poor	1
12	ManesarHaryana	201	201	Poor	1
13	Greater NoidaUttar Pradesh	197	150	Moderately Polluted	2
14	AmbalaHaryana	196	196	Moderately Polluted	1
15	DombivliMaharashtra	193	193	Moderately Polluted	1
16	MeerutUttar Pradesh	193	186	Moderately Polluted	4
17	BaghpatUttar Pradesh	192	192	Moderately Polluted	1
18	AhmedabadGujarat	190	119	Moderately Polluted	7
19	BhiwadiRajasthan	189	184	Moderately Polluted	2
20	BahadurgarhHaryana	184	184	Moderately Polluted	1
21	JindHaryana	183	183	Moderately Polluted	1
22	ModinagarUttar Pradesh	182	182	Moderately Polluted	1
23	AgartalaTripura	174	174	Moderately Polluted	1
24	AmbernathMaharashtra	173	173	Moderately Polluted	1
25	VrindavanUttar Pradesh	173	148	Moderately Polluted	2
26	VaranasiUttar Pradesh	172	127	Moderately Polluted	4
27	HowrahWest Bengal	168	131	Moderately Polluted	5
28	SamastipurBihar	163	163	Moderately Polluted	1
29	MungerBihar	162	162	Moderately Polluted	1
30	GummidipoondiTamil Nadu	162	162	Moderately Polluted	1
31	GayaBihar	159	101	Moderately Polluted	3
32	BareillyUttar Pradesh	159	101	Moderately Polluted	2
33	LucknowUttar Pradesh	159	115	Moderately Polluted	6
34	BrajrajnagarOdisha	154	154	Moderately Polluted	1
35	TalcherOdisha	154	154	Moderately Polluted	1
36	ParadeepOdisha	153	153	Moderately Polluted	1
37	MuzaffarpurBihar	152	107	Moderately Polluted	2
38	DausaRajasthan	152	152	Moderately Polluted	1
39	GandhinagarGujarat	149	118	Moderately Polluted	3
40	Mandi GobindgarhPunjab	149	149	Moderately Polluted	1
41	VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh	148	148	Moderately Polluted	1
42	BaddiHimachal Pradesh	145	145	Moderately Polluted	1
43	UlhasnagarMaharashtra	145	112	Moderately Polluted	2
44	HajipurBihar	142	142	Moderately Polluted	1
45	GorakhpurUttar Pradesh	142	142	Moderately Polluted	1
46	SirsaHaryana	141	141	Moderately Polluted	1
47	SrinagarJammu and Kashmir	141	94	Moderately Polluted	2
48	Navi MumbaiMaharashtra	141	104	Moderately Polluted	6
49	CuttackOdisha	137	137	Moderately Polluted O₃	1
50	KhurjaUttar Pradesh	137	137	Moderately Polluted	1
51	PithampurMadhya Pradesh	136	136	Moderately Polluted	1
52	ParbhaniMaharashtra	133	133	Moderately Polluted	1
53	KhoraUttar Pradesh	132	132	Moderately Polluted	1
54	PrayagrajUttar Pradesh	132	90	Moderately Polluted	3
55	DharuheraHaryana	131	131	Moderately Polluted	1
56	HisarHaryana	131	131	Moderately Polluted	1
57	AngulOdisha	131	131	Moderately Polluted O₃	1
58	KorbaChhattisgarh	130	98	Moderately Polluted	2
59	AnkleshwarGujarat	130	130	Moderately Polluted	1
60	AurangabadMaharashtra	130	104	Moderately Polluted	3
61	ChandrapurMaharashtra	129	128	Moderately Polluted	2
62	DurgapurWest Bengal	128	112	Moderately Polluted	3
63	MumbaiMaharashtra	127	77	Moderately Polluted	24
64	BaripadaOdisha	127	127	Moderately Polluted	1
65	KalyanMaharashtra	126	110	Moderately Polluted	2
66	SolapurMaharashtra	126	125	Moderately Polluted	2
67	PurniaBihar	125	125	Moderately Polluted	1
68	JaipurRajasthan	125	97	Moderately Polluted NO₂	6
69	ShamliUttar Pradesh	125	125	Moderately Polluted	1
70	MotihariBihar	124	124	Moderately Polluted	1
71	BhiwaniHaryana	124	124	Moderately Polluted	1
72	ByasanagarOdisha	124 ?	124	Moderately Polluted O₃	1
73	HaldiaWest Bengal	124	124	Moderately Polluted	1
74	DewasMadhya Pradesh	122	122	Moderately Polluted	1
75	NagpurMaharashtra	122	108	Moderately Polluted	4
76	ArariaBihar	121	121	Moderately Polluted	1
77	JalnaMaharashtra	121	121	Moderately Polluted	1
78	HyderabadTelangana	121	74	Moderately Polluted	13
79	FatehabadHaryana	120	120	Moderately Polluted	1
80	HingoliMaharashtra	120	120	Moderately Polluted	1
81	KanpurUttar Pradesh	120	102	Moderately Polluted	3
82	SasaramBihar	119	119	Moderately Polluted	1
83	VadodaraGujarat	119	119	Moderately Polluted	1
84	PatnaBihar	118	86	Moderately Polluted	5
85	JalandharPunjab	118	118	Moderately Polluted	1
86	Sawai MadhopurRajasthan	118	118	Moderately Polluted	1
87	Fatehpur SikriUttar Pradesh	118	118	Moderately Polluted	1
88	MandideepMadhya Pradesh	117	117	Moderately Polluted	1
89	DehradunUttarakhand	117	117	Moderately Polluted	1
90	Charkhi DadriHaryana	116	116	Moderately Polluted	1
91	JorapokharJharkhand	116	116	Moderately Polluted	1
92	BhubaneswarOdisha	116	111	Moderately Polluted O₃	2
93	BikanerRajasthan	116	116	Moderately Polluted	1
94	GwaliorMadhya Pradesh	115	109	Moderately Polluted	3
95	LudhianaPunjab	115	115	Moderately Polluted	1
96	Sri GanganagarRajasthan	115	115	Moderately Polluted	1
97	ChandigarhChandigarh	114	87	Moderately Polluted	3
98	VatvaGujarat	114	114	Moderately Polluted	1
99	BengaluruKarnataka	114	81	Moderately Polluted	7
100	ByrnihatAssam	113	103	Moderately Polluted	2
101	NarnaulHaryana	113	113	Moderately Polluted	1
102	PuneMaharashtra	113	81	Moderately Polluted	6
103	JaisalmerRajasthan	113	113	Moderately Polluted	1
104	ThaneMaharashtra	112	96	Moderately Polluted	2
105	Pimpri-ChinchwadMaharashtra	111	92	Moderately Polluted	6
106	AgraUttar Pradesh	111	91	Moderately Polluted	6
107	EloorKerala	110 ?	110	Moderately Polluted CO	1
108	NandesariGujarat	106	106	Moderately Polluted NO₂	1
109	JabalpurMadhya Pradesh	106	99	Moderately Polluted	3
110	NandedMaharashtra	106	106	Moderately Polluted	1
111	TonkRajasthan	106	106	Moderately Polluted	1
112	BarrackporeWest Bengal	106	106	Moderately Polluted	1
113	NagaurRajasthan	105	105	Moderately Polluted	1
114	BhopalMadhya Pradesh	104	100	Moderately Polluted	3
115	AsansolWest Bengal	104	98	Moderately Polluted	4
116	DhanbadJharkhand	103 ?	103	Moderately Polluted NO₂	1
117	PaliRajasthan	103	103	Moderately Polluted	1
118	BoisarMaharashtra	102	102	Moderately Polluted	1
119	BileipadaOdisha	102	102	Moderately Polluted	1
120	BhavnagarGujarat	101	101	Moderately Polluted	1
121	RohtakHaryana	101	101	Moderately Polluted	1
122	BalasoreOdisha	101	101	Moderately Polluted O₃	1
123	ChittorgarhRajasthan	101	101	Moderately Polluted O₃	1
124	BelapurMaharashtra	100	100	Satisfactory	1
125	KatniMadhya Pradesh	99	99	Satisfactory	1
126	UjjainMadhya Pradesh	99	99	Satisfactory O₃	1
127	HanumangarhRajasthan	98	98	Satisfactory	1
128	KotaRajasthan	98	88	Satisfactory O₃	3
129	ChuruRajasthan	97	97	Satisfactory	1
130	SikarRajasthan	97	97	Satisfactory	1
131	UdaipurRajasthan	97	97	Satisfactory	1
132	NashikMaharashtra	96	87	Satisfactory	4
133	SataraMaharashtra	96	96	Satisfactory	1
134	RourkelaOdisha	96	70	Satisfactory	3
135	MathuraUttar Pradesh	96	96	Satisfactory	1
136	SonipatHaryana	95	95	Satisfactory	1
137	BegusaraiBihar	94	94	Satisfactory	1
138	SuratGujarat	94	67	Satisfactory	2
139	BathindaPunjab	94	94	Satisfactory	1
140	JodhpurRajasthan	94	72	Satisfactory	5
141	AmravatiMaharashtra	93	89	Satisfactory	2
142	JhunjhunuRajasthan	93	93	Satisfactory	1
143	SagarMadhya Pradesh	92	92	Satisfactory	1
144	ChhapraBihar	91	91	Satisfactory CO	1
145	BallabgarhHaryana	91	91	Satisfactory	1
146	AhmednagarMaharashtra	91	91	Satisfactory	1
147	BarbilOdisha	91	91	Satisfactory O₃	1
148	AkolaMaharashtra	89	89	Satisfactory	1
149	YadgirKarnataka	88	88	Satisfactory	1
150	BhagalpurBihar	87	81	Satisfactory CO	2
151	TensaOdisha	87	87	Satisfactory	1
152	JhalawarRajasthan	87	87	Satisfactory O₃	1
153	MehsanaGujarat	86	86	Satisfactory	1
154	AmritsarPunjab	86	86	Satisfactory	1
155	AlwarRajasthan	86	77	Satisfactory	2
156	ChennaiTamil Nadu	86	64	Satisfactory	6
157	VapiGujarat	85	85	Satisfactory	1
158	BundiRajasthan	85	85	Satisfactory O₃	1
159	PamporeJammu and Kashmir	84	84	Satisfactory	1
160	LaturMaharashtra	84	84	Satisfactory	1
161	SiwanBihar	83	83	Satisfactory	1
162	DhuleMaharashtra	83	83	Satisfactory	1
163	FirozabadUttar Pradesh	83	81	Satisfactory	2
164	NalbariAssam	81	81	Satisfactory	1
165	Mira-BhayandarMaharashtra	81	81	Satisfactory	1
166	PratapgarhRajasthan	81	81	Satisfactory	1
167	TumidihChhattisgarh	80	80	Satisfactory	1
168	NayagarhOdisha	80	80	Satisfactory	1
169	BharatpurRajasthan	79	79	Satisfactory O₃	1
170	GuwahatiAssam	78	61	Satisfactory CO	4
171	RajkotGujarat	78	78	Satisfactory	1
172	MaiharMadhya Pradesh	78	78	Satisfactory NO₂	1
173	MalegaonMaharashtra	78	78	Satisfactory	1
174	SangliMaharashtra	78	78	Satisfactory	1
175	TirupatiAndhra Pradesh	77	77	Satisfactory	1
176	RajamahendravaramAndhra Pradesh	76	76	Satisfactory O₃	1
177	PalwalHaryana	76	76	Satisfactory	1
178	BaranRajasthan	76	76	Satisfactory O₃	1
179	DharwadKarnataka	75	75	Satisfactory	1
180	KunjemuraChhattisgarh	74	74	Satisfactory	1
181	JalgaonMaharashtra	74	74	Satisfactory O₃	1
182	RaebareliUttar Pradesh	74	72	Satisfactory CO	2
183	KishanganjBihar	73	73	Satisfactory	1
184	MangurahaBihar	73	73	Satisfactory	1
185	MiluparaChhattisgarh	73	73	Satisfactory	1
186	PatialaPunjab	73	73	Satisfactory	1
187	SirohiRajasthan	73	73	Satisfactory O₃	1
188	BilaspurChhattisgarh	71	71	Satisfactory	1
189	AjmerRajasthan	71	71	Satisfactory	1
190	BhilaiChhattisgarh	70	53	Satisfactory	3
191	MysuruKarnataka	70	70	Satisfactory O₃	1
192	SatnaMadhya Pradesh	70	70	Satisfactory	1
193	BhilwaraRajasthan	70	70	Satisfactory	1
194	BeedMaharashtra	69	69	Satisfactory	1
195	KhannaPunjab	68	68	Satisfactory	1
196	ChittoorAndhra Pradesh	67	67	Satisfactory	1
197	DungarpurRajasthan	67	67	Satisfactory	1
198	JaloreRajasthan	66	66	Satisfactory	1
199	ThoothukudiTamil Nadu	66	66	Satisfactory	1
200	VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh	65	57	Satisfactory	3
201	DamohMadhya Pradesh	65	65	Satisfactory	1
202	DholpurRajasthan	65	65	Satisfactory	1
203	JhansiUttar Pradesh	65	65	Satisfactory	1
204	KohimaNagaland	64	64	Satisfactory SO₂	1
205	KarauliRajasthan	64	64	Satisfactory O₃	1
206	GunturAndhra Pradesh	63	63	Satisfactory	1
207	KatiharBihar	63	63	Satisfactory	1
208	Yamuna NagarHaryana	63	63	Satisfactory O₃	1
209	RaipurChhattisgarh	62	43	Satisfactory	3
210	MahadMaharashtra	62	62	Satisfactory	1
211	PanchkulaHaryana	61	61	Satisfactory	1
212	AnantapurAndhra Pradesh	60	60	Satisfactory	1
213	Bihar SharifBihar	60	60	Satisfactory	1
214	ChhalChhattisgarh	60	60	Satisfactory O₃	1
215	ChikkaballapurKarnataka	59	59	Satisfactory	1
216	IndoreMadhya Pradesh	59	49	Satisfactory	3
217	TirumalaAndhra Pradesh	58	58	Satisfactory NO₂	1
218	SivasagarAssam	58	58	Satisfactory O₃	1
219	RupnagarPunjab	58	58	Satisfactory CO	1
220	EluruAndhra Pradesh	57	57	Satisfactory	1
221	KakinadaAndhra Pradesh	57	57	Satisfactory CO	1
222	MachilipatnamAndhra Pradesh	57	57	Satisfactory	1
223	KolhapurMaharashtra	56	52	Satisfactory O₃	2
224	SilcharAssam	55	55	Satisfactory	1
225	BanswaraRajasthan	55	55	Satisfactory	1
226	AmaravatiAndhra Pradesh	54	54	Satisfactory	1
227	KadapaAndhra Pradesh	54	54	Satisfactory	1
228	MangaloreKarnataka	53	53	Satisfactory	1
229	BarmerRajasthan	53	53	Satisfactory	1
230	NagaonAssam	51	51	Satisfactory	1
231	ThiruvananthapuramKerala	51	38	Satisfactory	2
232	ThrissurKerala	51	51	Satisfactory	1
233	ArrahBihar	50	50	Good CO	1
234	HaveriKarnataka	50	50	Good CO	1
235	NaharlagunArunachal Pradesh	48	48	Good	1
236	KarnalHaryana	48	48	Good	1
237	MandikheraHaryana	48	48	Good	1
238	ShillongMeghalaya	46	46	Good O₃	1
239	KaithalHaryana	45	45	Good	1
240	RajsamandRajasthan	44	44	Good	1
241	RatlamMadhya Pradesh	43	43	Good	1
242	VirarMaharashtra	43	43	Good	1
243	RajgirBihar	42	42	Good CO	1
244	PanipatHaryana	42	42	Good O₃	1
245	KurnoolAndhra Pradesh	40	40	Good	1
246	PanchgaonHaryana	38	38	Good	1
247	KalaburagiKarnataka	38	34	Good	2
248	BhiwandiMaharashtra	38	38	Good CO	1
249	BettiahBihar	36	36	Good CO	1
250	BadlapurMaharashtra	35	35	Good CO	1
251	SiliguriWest Bengal	33	33	Good	1
252	PuducherryPuducherry	32	32	Good O₃	1
253	ChamarajanagarKarnataka	30	30	Good O₃	1
254	HubballiKarnataka	29	29	Good O₃	1
255	CoimbatoreTamil Nadu	29	29	Good SO₂	1
256	MadikeriKarnataka	27	27	Good	1
257	LehLadakh	27	27	Good O₃	1
258	GangtokSikkim	21	21	Good	1
259	KashipurUttarakhand	12	12	Good CO	1
260	AizawlMizoram	3	3	Good O₃	1
261	CuddaloreTamil Nadu	2	2	Good O₃	1
262	HapurUttar Pradesh	1	1	Good O₃	1

Above AQI 100Within it

Every state and union territory with a city reporting to CPCB at 16:00 IST, 5 October 2026, ordered by how many of its cities are above the limit.
State or union territory	Cities	Above 100	Worst city	AQI
Uttar Pradesh	27	22	Ghaziabad	347
Maharashtra	36	18	Dombivli	193
Haryana	25	15	Gurugram	298
Rajasthan	34	11	Bhiwadi	189
Bihar	21	10	Samastipur	163
Odisha	14	10	Brajrajnagar	154
Gujarat	11	7	Ahmedabad	190
West Bengal	7	6	Kolkata	231
Madhya Pradesh	14	6	Pithampur	136
Punjab	8	3	Mandi Gobindgarh	149
Jharkhand	2	2	Jorapokhar	116
Delhi	1	1	Delhi	278
Tripura	1	1	Agartala	174
Tamil Nadu	5	1	Gummidipoondi	162
Andhra Pradesh	14	1	Visakhapatnam	148
Himachal Pradesh	1	1	Baddi	145
Jammu and Kashmir	2	1	Srinagar	141
Chhattisgarh	8	1	Korba	130
Telangana	1	1	Hyderabad	121
Uttarakhand	2	1	Dehradun	117
Chandigarh	1	1	Chandigarh	114
Karnataka	11	1	Bengaluru	114
Assam	6	1	Byrnihat	113
Kerala	3	1	Eloor	110
Nagaland	1	0	Kohima	64
Arunachal Pradesh	1	0	Naharlagun	48
Meghalaya	1	0	Shillong	46
Puducherry	1	0	Puducherry	32
Ladakh	1	0	Leh	27
Sikkim	1	0	Gangtok	21
Mizoram	1	0	Aizawl	3

24 of 31 states and union territories have at least one city above the limit. A state with three cities in the feed and three above the limit is not the same finding as a state with forty and three, which is why the count of cities is beside it. Nothing here is a state average: CPCB measures cities, not states, and the unmeasured parts of a state are unmeasured, not clean.

How to read a rank

Four things decide whether a row above means what it looks like it means. Three of them are about who is holding the monitor.

The number is one machine

A city’s rank here is its worst monitor. A city with forty monitors has forty chances to produce a high reading; a city with one has one. That cuts against the well-measured city: 196 of these 262 cities are a single station wearing a city’s name, and a city with one monitor is measured less, not better. Read the station count before you read the rank.

Two numbers, two questions

“Worst” is the worst station. “Mean” is the average across the city’s stations — the figure CPCB itself publishes for that city. Against CPCB’s own published figures this ranking runs about a quarter higher. Neither is wrong; they answer different questions, so both are on the row.

The scale is not a ratio

The AQI is piecewise-linear. 200 is not twice the pollution of 100 — it is twice the index. Nothing on this page multiplies one AQI by another, and neither should a sentence written from it.

Every pollutant counts

A station’s AQI is its worst published sub-index, whichever pollutant that is. Where the governing pollutant is not particulate the row names it, because a rank is not comparable unless you can see what is being ranked. CPCB publishes sub-indexes, already on one scale. Two things are set aside: a channel that has stopped moving, and a gas reading its own station’s particulates do not back up, which is published with a question mark but not ranked.

3 rows carry a question mark. At Byasanagar, Eloor, Dhanbad one gas channel reads far above the worst particulate at the same station and no independent monitor is near enough to say which is right. They are ranked on particulates; the gas figure is published in the tooltip, not ranked. Hover or focus the mark to read it.

These are the cities CPCB measures, not the cities of India. A place with no monitor produces no row, and an absent row is an absent instrument — never clean air. 262 cities reported in this hour; the count moves as stations drop in and out.

CPCB measures cities, not states. Averaging a state’s cities would invent a reading for the land between them, so there is no state figure.

Source: Central Pollution Control Board, resource . Snapshot 16:00 IST, 5 October 2026, 3,521 station-pollutant rows behind 495 stations.

Suggested citation

Swechha. Air quality index for every reporting city in India.
Reading from the Central Pollution Control Board network, observed 16:00 IST, 5 October 2026.
https://swechha.in/now/air/india

Reuse freely — CC BY 4.0. The readings are CPCB's measurements, not Swechha's; the selection — each city's worst reporting monitor, with the mean of its monitors beside it — is ours. Quote the observation hour, not the hour you read it: this is one snapshot, and a city's rank moves with the wind. Full terms, method and limitations.

The city this site reads every hour

Delhi is one row above. Its page takes the city apart — 44 monitors, what is in the air, who is in it, and what has been spent on it.

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