Bhopal vs Palwal
Side-by-side air quality comparison between Bhopal and Palwal.
Live AQI from Open-Meteo CAMS (~45 km global model, updated hourly). Multi-year history from CPCB station data via aqinow.co pipeline (2016–2024, station-level daily records).
AQI Comparison
CPCB Multi-Year History (2016–2024)
Summary
Overview
In 2024, Bhopal averaged an AQI of 114 while Palwal averaged 95 — a 19-point (20%) gap, with Bhopal the more polluted and Palwal the cleaner of the two. On 1340 days when both cities reported, Bhopal was cleaner on 674 of them; the average daily gap was 51 AQI points.
Seasonality & days
Both cities see their worst air in November on average. Bhopal logged 0% Severe days and 38.4% Good-or-Satisfactory days; Palwal was 0.2% Severe and 47.800000000000004% Good-or-Satisfactory. Longest clean-air streaks: Bhopal 47 days, Palwal 37 days.
Year-over-year progress
Bhopal has improved by 39 AQI points (25.5%) from 2019 to 2024; Palwal has improved by 91 AQI points (48.9%) over the same window. The worst recorded day for Bhopal reached AQI 392 at T T Nagar (MPPCB) on 2022-01-06; Palwal hit AQI 465 at Shyam Nagar (HSPCB) on 2019-11-14.
Station-level disparity
Bhopal spans 3 CPCB stations with a 18-point spread (min 111, max 129); Palwal spans 1 stations with a 0-point spread (min 120, max 120).