Panchkula vs Puducherry
Side-by-side air quality comparison between Panchkula and Puducherry.
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 2022, Panchkula averaged an AQI of 117 while Puducherry averaged 55 — a 62-point (113%) gap, with Panchkula the more polluted and Puducherry the cleaner of the two. On 632 days when both cities reported, Puducherry was cleaner on 494 of them; the average daily gap was 59 AQI points.
Seasonality & days
Both cities see their worst air in December on average. Panchkula logged 0.1% Severe days and 61.9% Good-or-Satisfactory days; Puducherry was 0% Severe and 95.4% Good-or-Satisfactory. Longest clean-air streaks: Panchkula 60 days, Puducherry 117 days.
Year-over-year progress
Panchkula has improved by 74 AQI points (38.7%) from 2017 to 2022; Puducherry has worsened by 1 AQI points (1.9%) over the same window. The worst recorded day for Panchkula reached AQI 474 at Sector-6 Panchkula () on 2018-06-15; Puducherry hit AQI 274 at Jawahar Nagar (PPCC) on 2022-10-25.
Station-level disparity
Panchkula spans 1 CPCB stations with a 0-point spread (min 102, max 102); Puducherry spans 1 stations with a 0-point spread (min 56, max 56).