City report · Gujarat, India
Ahmedabad Air quality today
Air quality in Ahmedabad currently reads AQI 118 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 118
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 42.6
- tree cover
- 12.4%
- trees in this area
- 37.7K
- more trees needed
- 68.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Old City, Tankshal, Khadia, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 15, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ahmedabad · AQI 118 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Ahmedabad's tree count comes to 37,670 trees across 12.16 km² of land, 23 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 68,657 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ahmedabad today: AQI 118, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Gyaspur, Ahmedabad - IITM, 6.4 km away · median of 8 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
42.6
PM10
190.9
NO₂
128.5
O₃
2.6
SO₂
27.6
CO
1.7
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ahmedabad's daily AQI at 87 on average, from 65 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 152 on Nov 7.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Ahmedabad stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ahmedabad: Critically low
12.4% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.16 km² of land.
Trees in this area
37,670
Target trees
106,327
More trees needed
68,657
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,510 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ahmedabad lost?
There was almost no forest around Ahmedabad in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2017: satellite photo from January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Ahmedabad right now?
The latest reading for Ahmedabad shows an AQI of 118 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by 8 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Gyaspur, Ahmedabad - IITM, 6.4 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ahmedabad today?
At AQI 118 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Ahmedabad been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ahmedabad's daily AQI at 87 on average, from 65 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 152 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Ahmedabad's AQI the same as India's AQI (CPCB)?
No. Airleaf shows the US EPA Air Quality Index (AQI), the scale used by IQAir and most air-quality apps. India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) publishes the National Air Quality Index on its own scale: 0–50 good, 51–100 satisfactory, 101–200 moderate, 201–300 poor, 301–400 very poor and 401–500 severe. The two scales don't line up. At moderate fine-particle levels the US scale reads higher: 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5 is 149 on the US AQI but about 92, "satisfactory", on India's. In heavy smog India's reads higher: 100 µg/m³ is 182 on the US AQI and about 232, "poor", on India's. CPCB also averages particles over 24 hours, so its figure moves more slowly than an hourly reading.
How much forest has the area around Ahmedabad lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ahmedabad in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Ahmedabad?
Ahmedabad has an estimated 37,670 trees across the 12.16 km² of land measured — 12.4% tree cover, 23 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ahmedabad need?
Ahmedabad needs roughly 68,657 more trees to close a 23-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,510 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ahmedabad's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Old City, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Old City; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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