Delhi recorded its lowest minimum temperature of 18.1 degrees Celsius on Thursday, at a time when the air quality in Delhi is deteriorating. Air quality was recorded to be under the ‘very poor’ category in at least six monitoring stations in the national capital, as the cold of the winter season is slowly beginning to set in. Earlier this week the city recorded its first drop in the temperature below 20 degrees Celsius for the 2025 –26 winter season. However, in contrast, in 2024, the temperature went below 20 degrees Celsius on October 12, later remaining at 18.6 degrees Celsius, and in the year before that in 2023, Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 18.3 degrees Celsius as early as October 3, the weather data said.

On Thursday, the maximum temperature was recorded at 32.9 degrees

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