Ooty vs Palwal
Side-by-side air quality comparison between Ooty 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, Ooty averaged an AQI of 58 while Palwal averaged 95 — a 37-point (64%) gap, with Palwal the more polluted and Ooty the cleaner of the two. On 558 days when both cities reported, Ooty was cleaner on 411 of them; the average daily gap was 40 AQI points.
Seasonality & days
Ooty peaks in May, while Palwal peaks in November. Ooty logged 0% Severe days and 94.2% Good-or-Satisfactory days; Palwal was 0.2% Severe and 47.800000000000004% Good-or-Satisfactory. Longest clean-air streaks: Ooty 22 days, Palwal 37 days.
Year-over-year progress
Ooty is essentially flat from 2022 to 2024; Palwal has improved by 91 AQI points (48.9%) over the same window. The worst recorded day for Ooty reached AQI 164 at Bombay Castel (TNPCB) on 2024-12-17; Palwal hit AQI 465 at Shyam Nagar (HSPCB) on 2019-11-14.
Station-level disparity
Ooty spans 1 CPCB stations with a 0-point spread (min 59, max 59); Palwal spans 1 stations with a 0-point spread (min 120, max 120).