After an unusual deterioration of air quality during the last few days, Pune seems to be healing. Having experienced an unbelievable AQI of around 800, now the city is experiencing an average AQI of 120.

Based on aqi.in observations, Shivajinagar AQI at noon was 115, although still unhealthy, but better than the last few days.

Almost all monitoring stations of aqi.in have registered a similar AQI at noon on November 11, 2026. Slight breeze blowing across the city is helping keep the AQI in check.

An interesting fact is that there is hardly any variation in AQI levels between day and night in Pune.

The silver lining is that AQI of Pune is much better than many cities in north India. The worst AQI in India has been recorded at Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan at 496 which falls in hazardous category at almost 25 times the standard. Cities in Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are in the grip of heavy air pollution.

Mumbai is facing a similar situation w.r.t AQI as Pune. It is experiencing 121 AQI.

Across large cities, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad are experiencing the best air quality relatively, at 85 and 74 respectively. Delhi continues to have bad air quality at 351.

If we look at the benchmarks, generally AQI up to 50 is considered to be good and between 51 to 100 is moderate. 101-200 is considered poor.