Air quality in city moderate

**EDS: RPT, CORRECTS DATE IN CAPTION** New Delhi: People walk and click photographs along Kartavya Path with Rashtrapati Bhavan in the background on a cloudy day, in New Delhi, Sunday, March 15, 2026. Several parts of the city and the NCR received light rain and thunderstorms, providing relief from recent high temperatures. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)(PTI03_15_2026_RPT018B)

New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The city on Thursday recorded a minimum temperature of 18.9 degrees Celsius, with the air quality settling in the ‘moderate’ category.

The maximum temperature is expected to settle at 36 degrees Celsius.

The weather department has predicted a partly cloudy sky on Thursday and thunderstorms with rain on Friday and Saturday.

The air quality was recorded in the moderate category at 9 am, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of 167, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed.

According to the CPCB, an AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 to 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 to 200 ‘moderate’, 201 to 300 ‘poor’, 301 to 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 to 500 ‘severe’. PTI BM DV DV

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