Ranipet vs Rishīkesh
Side-by-side air quality comparison between Ranipet and Rishīkesh.
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, Ranipet averaged an AQI of 75 while Rishīkesh averaged 74 — a 1-point (1%) gap, with Ranipet the more polluted and Rishīkesh the cleaner of the two. On 57 days when both cities reported, Ranipet was cleaner on 30 of them; the average daily gap was 48 AQI points.
Seasonality & days
Ranipet peaks in November, while Rishīkesh peaks in January. Ranipet logged 0% Severe days and 67.80000000000001% Good-or-Satisfactory days; Rishīkesh was 0% Severe and 88.3% Good-or-Satisfactory. Longest clean-air streaks: Ranipet 10 days, Rishīkesh 95 days.
Year-over-year progress
The worst recorded day for Ranipet reached AQI 224 at VOC Nagar SIPCOT (TNPCB) on 2024-12-17; Rishīkesh hit AQI 208 at Shivaji Nagar (UKPCB) on 2024-11-11.
Station-level disparity
Ranipet spans 1 CPCB stations with a 0-point spread (min 75, max 75); Rishīkesh spans 1 stations with a 0-point spread (min 64, max 64).