Two people living in the same city.
Same summer. Same sun. Same sky.
But one is sweating it out at 44°C…
the other is chilling at 39°C.
Same Gurgaon. Different ward. Different planet. 🌡️
A new 12-year satellite study just mapped this invisible heat divide across Gurgaon — and the numbers are wild.
Climate think-tank Envirocatalysts scanned Landsat 8 and 9 imagery at 30-metre resolution, ward by ward, from 2015 to 2026.
What they found isn't a weather story.
It's an urban planning story.
The widest crack? Recorded in 2019.
Surface temperatures in Ward 24 (Sihi, Sectors 83, 84, 88 along the Dwarka Expressway) ran nearly 8°C hotter than Ward 33.
Eight. Degrees. Inside the same city. 🤯
And Ward 24 isn't done flexing:
Every ward in Gurgaon has gotten hotter since 2015.
But the pace? Brutally uneven.
Ward 8 — Basai, Dhanwapur, Sectors 100-104 — warmed by a staggering 3.6°C in just one decade.
Ward 24 followed at 2.71°C. Wards 3 and 4 (Carterpuri, Palam Vihar) climbed 2.5°C and 2.3°C.
The same hotspots show up every single year.
That's the giveaway.
This isn't seasonal. It's structural.
Gurgaon lost 2.47 sq km of forest cover in just two years between 2019 and 2021 — the highest loss in all of Haryana.
Swap trees for glass towers. Swap ponds for parking lots. Swap soil for asphalt.
And you get exactly this.
👉 Sunil Dahiya of Envirocatalysts puts it bluntly: cutting trees, killing water bodies, and pouring concrete have made surface temperatures rise much more steeply in some neighbourhoods than others.
Wards 25 (Badshahpur) and 30 (Greenwood City, Malibu Town, Sushant Lok 2 & 3) warmed by just 0.52°C and 0.63°C.
The difference? They still have green cover and open space.
That's the whole formula. There's no other trick.
The people frying in these 50°C+ pockets?
They're the ones who can't afford the ACs, the insulated glass, the backup inverters.
Heat is becoming a class divide stamped onto a city map.
Gurgaon didn't get unlucky.
It got built this way.
That's all for now!
