Mumbai: In a rare breath of fresh air for Mumbaikars, the city recorded its cleanest air quality since the beginning of the month on Sunday.The city registered an overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of 117, firmly placing it in the ‘moderate' category where it has remained since the start of the New Year. Though the city has seen some intermittent days of satisfactory air in January, the recent readings mark a significant point of improvement for February so far.While the city-wide average showed improvement, the air quality remained a tale of two suburbs. Within Navi Mumbai, Vashi boasted a ‘satisfactory' 75, though industrial Taloja remained the outlier at 134.While the lungs found some relief, the skin felt the sting of an unseasonably warm sun as the day was 3.7° warmer than usual.Maximum temperatures across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) stayed significantly above the seasonal average.Indian Meteorological Department's (IMD) Santacruz observatory recorded a maximum temperature of 34.5°C, which was 3.6° warmer than normal.
Author: Mahiyar Patel
Published at: 2026-02-08 21:36:00
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