GURUGRAM: Gurugram recorded an Air Quality Index of 323 in the Central Pollution Control Board bulletin issued at 4 pm IST on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, keeping the city in the very poor category. Manesar improved to poor at 284, while Panchgaon remained very poor at 380. For residents in Sector 51 and across Gurugram, these are dated city level readings based on the preceding 24 hours, rather than live measurements for Wednesday morning.
The latest bulletin shows a 22 point fall from Gurugram's November 9 reading of 345. That improvement did not take the city below the very poor threshold. Manesar fell by 49 points from 333 and crossed into the lower poor band. Panchgaon moved in the opposite direction, rising 30 points from 350. All three comparisons use the same 4 pm bulletin time on consecutive dates.
One local area improves while another deteriorates
PM2.5 is identified as the prominent pollutant for Gurugram, Manesar and Panchgaon in the November 10 release. The station participation column records four out of four stations for Gurugram, and one out of one each for Manesar and Panchgaon. Those participation figures describe the monitoring inputs behind the published entries; they are not counts of neighbourhoods affected by pollution.
| Place | November 9 AQI | November 10 AQI | November 10 category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gurugram | 345 | 323 | Very poor |
| Manesar | 333 | 284 | Poor |
| Panchgaon | 350 | 380 | Very poor |
Gurugram's index was 39 points above Manesar's, while Panchgaon's was 57 points above Gurugram's. The differences show why one nearby city's figure cannot stand in for another's. They also prevent the local picture from being described simply as a uniform improvement: two entries declined, but the third increased over the same reporting interval.
Across other NCR locations, Faridabad was poor at 290 and Ballabgarh was very poor at 340. Delhi and Bahadurgarh each stood at 299, within the poor band. Noida was just inside very poor at 301. Ghaziabad, at 244, and Greater Noida, at 233, were both poor. These are separate city entries in the same official release, not a combined regional average.
The participation counts for Gurugram, Manesar and Panchgaon were unchanged between the two bulletins. Delhi's inputs changed from 47 of 59 stations on November 9 to 58 of 59 on November 10. That difference is another reason to keep each city's published average attached to its own date and monitoring coverage.
How to read the number without mistaking it for a forecast
The CPCB classifies an AQI between 201 and 300 as poor, between 301 and 400 as very poor, and between 401 and 500 as severe. On that scale, Gurugram and Panchgaon were below severe on November 10, although both remained very poor. Manesar's move into poor therefore represents a category change as well as a numerical decline.
The health statement attached to the bulletin associates poor air with breathing discomfort for most people after prolonged exposure. For very poor air, it identifies the possibility of respiratory illness with prolonged exposure. These are the board's general category statements. They do not diagnose individual residents, count hospital cases, or establish that a particular person's symptoms were caused by that day's pollution.
The bulletin is headed as an average of the previous 24 hours. Its notes say a city with multiple monitoring locations is represented using an average and warn that air quality can differ across locations. The board also acknowledges the scientific limitations of averaging, explaining that it uses the approach for simplicity. A city figure of 323 therefore does not mean every street or monitoring station recorded 323.
Similarly, the prominent pollutant label does not turn the index into a concentration measurement. The bulletin reports an index value and names PM2.5 as the prominent pollutant; it does not present 323 as a PM2.5 concentration in micrograms per cubic metre. Keeping those units separate matters when comparing an AQI bulletin with a station dashboard or an hourly pollution chart.
Use the dated bulletin and check the next update
The November 10 CPCB bulletin is the source for the current figures. The official bulletin archive supplies the preceding release, and the official air quality portal is the place to check monitoring location information. Tuesday's release contains no Wednesday weather forecast or guarantee about how quickly pollution will disperse.
For the recent local sequence, see the earlier November 8 air bulletin report, the November 5 Panchgaon reading and the November 4 Gurugram and Manesar figures. Each belongs to its stated date. The new November 10 figures replace none of those historical records and should not be presented as a live November 11 reading.
