Eluru Air Quality Index (AQI) & Air Pollution Today

Andhra Pradesh, India — Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) and PM2.5

Eluru AQI Right Now

66

Category: Satisfactory

Dominant Pollutant: pm10

PM2.5: 35.58 µg/m³

PM10: 64.93 µg/m³

Last updated: 2026-03-24 — Data source: Google Air Quality API (NAQI). Live NAQI values load when you visit the page.

Eluru Pollutant Levels

PollutantConcentration
PM2.535.58 µg/m³
PM1064.93 µg/m³
O₃ (Ozone)9.81 µg/m³
NO₂7.4 µg/m³
SO₂4.03 µg/m³
CO349.3 µg/m³

Health Advisory — Eluru

Satisfactory: Minor breathing discomfort to sensitive people.

Health Impact — Eluru

Cigarette Equivalent: Breathing this air is equivalent to smoking 1.6 cigarettes per day (based on current PM2.5 levels).

Life Expectancy Impact: Sustained exposure at this PM2.5 level could reduce life expectancy by 0.17 years (AQLI estimate, relative to WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³).

Health Recommendations for Eluru

  • General Population: Acceptable air quality. Unusually sensitive people should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
  • Elderly: Minor breathing discomfort is possible.
  • Children: Should be fine outdoors with normal activities.
  • Lung Disease Patients: Consider reducing prolonged outdoor exertion.

Understanding Eluru Air Quality

Eluru, the administrative headquarters of West Godavari district, sits in one of the most fertile and heavily irrigated regions of Andhra Pradesh - the Krishna-Godavari delta. The city is surrounded by a vast network of canals feeding paddy fields, coconut groves, and aquaculture ponds. This water-rich geography generally supports better air quality than arid inland towns, but post-harvest rice straw burning from December through February generates dense smoke plumes that envelop the city during calm winter mornings.

The dry winter-spring period (December–March) sees the highest particulate levels as reduced rainfall and morning temperature inversions over the low-lying delta trap agricultural burning smoke, vehicle emissions, and road dust. PM2.5 concentrations during these months typically hover in the Moderate range (50–80 µg/m³). The city's growing aquaculture processing industry - shrimp peeling, drying, and fish meal production - creates localised organic particulate and odour emissions, particularly in the peri-urban areas towards the coast.

Monsoonal rainfall (June–September), averaging over 1,000 mm annually, thoroughly cleanses the atmosphere and keeps AQI in the Good to Satisfactory range for four months. The canal system and surrounding water bodies create localised humidity effects that can trap pollutants in foggy winter mornings but aid dust suppression during dry afternoons. Eluru's moderate size and delta geography give it generally acceptable air quality, though the combination of rice stubble burning and urban growth continues to exert upward pressure on wintertime PM readings.

Primary Pollution Sources

  • Vehicle exhaust
  • Road dust
  • Agricultural burning (paddy and coconut)
  • Construction dust
  • Aquaculture processing emissions
  • Waste burning

Geography: West Godavari district headquarters in the Krishna-Godavari delta; canal-irrigated rice bowl, aquaculture belt, tropical humid lowland terrain

Peak pollution months: December, January, February, March

Frequently Asked Questions — Eluru

How does rice stubble burning affect Eluru's air quality?

The West Godavari delta surrounding Eluru is one of AP's most productive rice regions. Post-harvest stubble burning during December–February generates dense smoke that settles over the low-lying delta terrain, especially during calm winter mornings when temperature inversions trap pollutants near ground level.

When is air quality best in Eluru?

July and August offer the cleanest air in Eluru, with AQI consistently in the Good to Satisfactory range. The southwest monsoon brings over 1,000 mm of annual rainfall that washes out particulates, suppresses dust, and provides steady winds for atmospheric dispersion across the delta.

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