Real Time Air Quality and Air Quality Index for Delhi, India

posted by http://www.aqicn.org for the six stations operated by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee. There are more stations in Delhi, which are operated by the Central Pollution Control Board and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, but access to the data is limited. You can access the DPCC station data @ http://www.openaq.org

R.K. Puram, Delhi AQI: R.K. Puram, Delhi Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI).

196	Unhealthy Updated on Sunday 10:00 temperature: 39°C

current		past 2 days	min	max
PM2.5 AQI	196		84	235
PM10 AQI	144		41	170
O3 AQI	13		2	28
NO2 AQI	20		5	43
SO2 AQI	21		2	23
CO AQI	11		2	26
Temp.	39		27	41
Pressure	985		985	986
Humidity	51		42	94
Wind	2		0	2

Anand Vihar, Delhi AQI: Anand Vihar, Delhi Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI).

189	Unhealthy Updated on Sunday 10:00 temperature: 32°C

current		past 2 days	min	max
PM2.5 AQI	189		76	283
PM10 AQI	154		37	293
O3 AQI	3		1	19
NO2 AQI	13		10	28
SO2 AQI	4		2	7
CO AQI	3		3	37
Temp.	32		25	34
Pressure	992		991	994
Humidity	53		45	89
Wind	1		0	3

Mandir Marg, Delhi AQI: Mandir Marg, Delhi Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI).

208	Very Unhealthy Updated on Sunday 10:00 temperature: 36°C

current		past 2 days	min	max
PM2.5 AQI	208		46	242
PM10 AQI	154		8	156
O3 AQI	33		1	55
NO2 AQI	-		1	7
SO2 AQI	4		1	4
CO AQI	3		3	8
Temp.	36		25	38
Pressure	987		986	988
Humidity	61		49	94
Wind	1		0	1

Click on the Delhi map to read the current level of pollution and calculated health index. The health index is calculated by staff @ http://www.aqicn.org and not an official release of authorities responsible for monitoring in Delhi.



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Previous Post - 17/August/2010

Based on the examples across the globe, a new methodology is developed to estimate the air quality index for Delhi, India. New paper in the SIM-series, No.35 - "Air Quality Index for Delhi, India: Trend Analysis & Implications for 2010 Commonwealth Games" presents the methodology adjusted to reflect the new ambient air quality standards issued in November, 2009 by the Central Pollution Control Board of India.

Data from two monitoring stations is analyzed in this paper - (1) a traffic junction @ ITO and (2) Delhi College of Engineering. At the monitoring sites, AQI is often more than the healthy levels of 150 (on a scale of 0 to 500). The ITO is a traffic junction and accounted for only 19% of the days less then 100 AQI and 33% of the days less than 150. The DCE in the north and tends to measure lower than the city averages and yet struggled to stay in the green with only 24% of the days less than 150 AQI.

In Figures below, the winter months are highlighted with a blue box for each year. The winter months experience the worst pollution in each year starting in October and leading up to the February, the following year. For more details, download the full report.