New Delhi: Vehicles carry on a roadway amidst smog, in New Delhi, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. The nationwide capital awakened to a layer of smog on Diwali early morning with the city’s air quality index(AQI) slipping into the ‘really bad ‘classification, as it crossed the 300-mark|Image Credit: KAMAL KISHORE
Delhi’s air quality nose dived on Monday, the Diwali afternoon, as contamination levels at 31 out of 38 tracking stations redlined at’extremely bad’, and’extreme’at 3 stations.
According to the SAMEER app by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi taped a total AQI of 334 at midday, compared to 339 at 9 am.
Thirty-one keeping track of stations reported air quality in the ‘really bad’ classification with AQI levels above 300, while 3 stations– Anand Vihar (402 ), Wazirpur (423 ), and Ashok Vihar (414)– logged contamination to be in the ‘extreme’ classification.
The air quality is anticipated to weaken even more into the ‘extreme’ classification more commonly on Tuesday and Wednesday.
An AQI in between 0 and 50 is thought about ‘excellent’, 51 to 100 ‘satisfying’, 101 to 200 ‘moderate’, 201 to 300 ‘bad’, 301 to 400 ‘really bad’, and 401 to 500 ‘serious.’
Previously, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) conjured up Stage II of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) throughout Delhi-NCR.
The relocation followed the evaluation of the sub-committee on GRAP on Saturday and projections by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).
On October 15, the Supreme Court enabled the sale and bursting of green firecrackers in Delhi-NCR in between 6 am and 7 pm and once again from 8 pm to 10 pm on the day of Diwali and a day in the past.
The city tape-recorded a minimum temperature level of 20.2 degrees Celsius at 8.30 am.
The IMD has actually anticipated fog mist in the early morning and primarily clear sky later on in the day.
The optimum temperature level is anticipated to be 33 degrees Celsius.
Released on October 20, 2025
