India Accounts for 97 of World's 100 Hottest Cities According to AQI Rankings

Key facts

• According to live global temperature rankings agency AQI, 97 out of the 100 hottest cities in the world were located in India as of May 22.
• Balangir in Odisha and Sasaram in Bihar recorded the highest global temperatures at 48 degrees Celsius, followed by Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh at 47 degrees Celsius.
• The list includes 34 cities from Uttar Pradesh: Varanasi, Mirzapur, Moradabad, Sitapur, Prayagraj, Jaunpur, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Bijnor, Rampur, Bareilly, Ghazipur, Akbarpur, Muzaffarnagar, Amroha, Mainpuri, Fatehpur, Ayodhya, Balrampur, Budaun, Sambhal, Siddharthnagar, Auraiya, Etawah, Shamli, Etah, Banda, Aligarh, Bahraich, Jhansi, Firozabad, Agra, Hathras, and Mathura.
• Other represented regions include Haryana (Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Ambala, Karnal, Panipat, Sirsa, Fatehabad, Jind, Hisar, Panchkula, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri), Bihar (Sasaram, Buxar, Siwan, Begusarai, Munger, Bhagalpur, Bettiah, Motihari), Punjab (Patiala, Sangrur, Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Ludhiana, Mohali, Jalandhar, Faridkot), and Telangana (Khammam, Suryapet, Warangal, Karimnagar, Jagtial, Adilabad, Nalgonda, Jangaon).
• The remaining Indian entries comprise cities from West Bengal (Kulti, Asansol, Bankura, Durgapur, Berhampore, Baharampur), Madhya Pradesh (Rewa, Chhatarpur, Gwalior, Satna, Singrauli), Chhattisgarh (Bilaspur, Mahasamund, Raipur, Durg), Andhra Pradesh (Rajamahendravaram, Kakinada, Bhimavaram), Odisha (Balangir, Rourkela), Uttarakhand (Rudrapur, Haridwar), Rajasthan (Sri Ganganagar, Bharatpur), Maharashtra (Chandrapur), Jharkhand (Dhanbad), and Chandigarh.