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Cleanest Cities in 2016

12 months of data · Source: cpcb

This archive captures the cleanest cities in India for 2016, compiled from 12 months of daily CPCB station readings across 19 cities. Ahmedabad, Gujarat was India's cleanest city of the year with an annual average AQI of 66. The national average AQI across tracked cities was 175.

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Monthly Summary

MonthAvg AQI
January305
February225
March170
April173
May154
June132
July80
August74
September85
October185
November259
December256

Cleanest Cities in 2016

#CityAvg AQI
1AhmedabadGujarat66
2Navi MumbaiMaharashtra79
3TirumalaAndhra Pradesh87
4BengaluruKarnataka90
5MumbaiMaharashtra96
6VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh100
7HyderabadTelangana101
8PatnaBihar123
9MuzaffarpurBihar136
10AurangabadMaharashtra156
11VaranasiUttar Pradesh161
12HowrahWest Bengal161
13LucknowUttar Pradesh181
14GayaBihar191
15FaridabadHaryana192
16AgraUttar Pradesh193
17JodhpurRajasthan194
18KanpurUttar Pradesh207
19DelhiDelhi285