Best air purifiers you can buy to stay safe during the festive season

While the night skies come alive with pretty lights and colours during the festive season, what unfortunately also comes with it is extreme smog and a ton of pollutants in the air. Moreover, we’ve already seen an unprecedented rise in pollution levels in cities across the country, over the past couple of years.  

It’s imperative then to protect ourselves and our loved ones, particularly if someone happens to suffer from pre-existing respiratory conditions. How, you ask? You invest in an air purifier of course. Here’s a list of the seven best air purifiers you should consider investing in. 

7 best air purifiers to buy

Here are the seven best air purifiers you can consider bringing home this festive season:

1. Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool – HP07

2. Philips 1000i Series

3. Acer Acerpure 4-in-1 Air Purifier

4. Voltas VAP55TWV

5. Sharp FP-GM50E-B

6. Honeywell Air Touch U1

7. Blue Star Air Purifier

1. Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool - HP07

The Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool – HP07 does more than just purifying your room’s air. As its name suggests, the Purifier Hot+Cool can double up as a heater during the winters and as a fan during the summer as well. And it does so, while ensuring your room’s air remains clean and breathable, with a HEPA H13 filter that Dyson claims can capture up to 99.5 per cent of all suspended particles in a room. 

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It also oscillates up to 350 degrees and has an approximate coverage area of as much as 81 cubic metres to ensure the air in your entire room is evenly purified and cooled. 

2. Philips 1000i Series

The Philips 1000i Series air purifier has a clean air delivery rate (CADR) of 300 cubic metres an hour and gets three filters – a dust filter, an activated carbon filter and a HEPA filter, which can remove indoor pollutants of up to 0.003 microns with a success rate of up to 99.97 per cent. With four speed settings – Sleep, Speed 1 and 2, and Turbo, it can also purify the air in your room in up to 10 minutes at its quickest.  

Like the Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool, the Philips 1000i Series air purifier can also be controlled via an app – namely, the Philips Air+ app. What’s cool is, it gets support for voice control as well, via Alexa and Google Assistant. 

3. Acer Acerpure 4-in-1

The Acer Acerpure comes with a clean air delivery rate of 324 cubic metres per hour and can cover areas as large as 484 square feet. It features a pre-filter, a HEPA plus and a HEPA main filter, as well as an activated carbon filter. These work together to get rid of up to 99 per cent of viruses and airborne bacteria, ultrafine dust, PM10 and allergens in the air.  

What’s cool is, the device is also compatible with Google Home, in addition to having an LED display with a touch panel. 

4. Voltas VAP55TWV

The Voltas HEPA filter technology air purifier can cover areas of up to 581.25 square feet and has a CADR of 260 cubic metres per hour. It comes with a washable pre-filter, a UVC filter, a carbon filter, a HEPA H13 filter, as well as an ioniser. The purifier, Voltas says, can purify pollutants as small as 0.01 microns in size, and has a filtration rate of 99 per cent. 

5. Sharp FP-GM50E-B

The Sharp FP-GM50E-B air purifier can purify the air in spaces as large as 450 square feet and has a CADR of 306 cubic metres per hour. What’s cool is, in addition to air purification, it also gets an in-built mosquito catcher to protect you from diseases such as Dengue or Malaria.  

Additionally, the purifier gets a dedicated dust and odour sensor, and can even clear the haze in your rooms, typical of Indian homes during winters in general, and around the festive season in particular.  

6. Honeywell Air Touch U1

If you’re looking for an air purifier for a large room, look no further than the Honeywell Air Touch U1. This air purifier, with a CADR of up to 700 cubic metres per second can cover areas as large as 1,085 square feet. And bearing in mind how you may need to control the air purifier from across your (very large) rooms at times, it also gets Wi-Fi connectivity via the Honeywell Air Touch app. 

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In addition to a pre-filter, an activated carbon filter an anti-bacterial filter and of course, the HEPA filter, the air purifier also gets UV LED technology. This helps eliminate any harmful bacteria in your surroundings, during purification.  

7. Blue Star Air Purifier

This air purifier from Blue Star features three filters – a high-density air filter, an activated carbon filter, and a HEPA filter. It has a CADR of as much as 444 cubic metres per hour and can remove both, PM2.5 and PM10 particles. Moreover, it also has an auto-filter change alert, which comes in after every 720 hours of usage. 

With these air purifiers, you can ensure clean and safe air for both, yourselves and your loved ones across various budgets, avoiding any potentially life-threatening respiratory ailments in the long run. Happy shopping!