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HT launches dashboard combining Delhi air quality and pollution data
HT has launched a dashboard for tracking Delhi-NCR air pollution on its app and website.
It brings together hourly air-quality readings from India’s Central Pollution Control Board with weather data from the India Meteorological Department and satellite counts of farm fires from Nasa.
The dashboard shows how readings relate to wind, fires and other conditions, rather than presenting a single pollution number on its own.
This context matters because air quality can shift sharply: Delhi’s official reading fell from 222 on October 29 to 60 the next day after heavy rain, then rose to 261 on November 1.
On Tuesday, the official reading was 350, in the “very poor” band and the city’s highest since January 20.
The dashboard is intended to help residents understand changes in the air they breathe and see which agency measured each figure and when.
Readers can use their location to find the nearest monitoring station, and the dashboard is available at hindustantimes.com/breathe.
Hindustan Times has launched a pollution dashboard for Delhi-NCR on its app and website.
The dashboard combines hourly government air-quality readings with weather conditions, farm-fire counts and mixing height.
It uses data from the Central Pollution Control Board, the India Meteorological Department and Nasa.
Delhi’s official air-quality figure was 350 on Tuesday, in the “very poor” band and the city’s highest since January 20.
At 6pm, 11 of Delhi’s 57 reporting stations were in the “severe” band.
- Who
- Hindustan Times launched the dashboard for residents of Delhi and the National Capital Region.
- What
- It brings air-quality figures and related pollution data together on one screen.
- When
- Published on November 3, 2026. The article does not give a separate launch time.
- Where
- On the HT app and website, at hindustantimes.com/breathe.
- Why
- To put government air-quality figures in context alongside factors such as weather and farm fires.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Delhi’s official air-quality figure was 222, in the Central Pollution Control Board’s Poor band.
After 60.5mm of rain fell at Safdarjung overnight, the next day’s figure was 60, in the Satisfactory band.
Delhi’s official figure reached 261, its worst since April 17.
HT reported an official figure of 350 for Delhi and published its new pollution dashboard.
- Dashboard
- Available on the HT app and website at hindustantimes.com/breathe
- Data sources
- CPCB, IMD and Nasa
- Delhi official air-quality figure
- 350 on Tuesday, in the “very poor” band
- Reporting stations
- 11 of 57 were in the “severe” band at 6pm
- Highest station reading
- Jahangirpuri, 459
- Lowest station reading
- Lodhi Road, 212