City report · Maharashtra, India
Aurangabad Air quality today
Air quality in Aurangabad currently reads AQI 112 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 112
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 40.1
- tree cover
- 15.2%
- trees in this area
- 47.8K
- more trees needed
- 62.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kailash Nagar, Mondha, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra 431001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Aurangabad · AQI 112 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Aurangabad's tree count comes to 47,752 trees across 12.57 km², 20 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 62,204 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Aurangabad today: AQI 112, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:45 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Rachnakar Colony, Aurangabad - MPCB, 2.7 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
40.1
PM10
88.9
NO₂
69.2
O₃
19.6
SO₂
10.9
CO
1.8
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 Aurangabad's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 81 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 127 on Nov 8.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Aurangabad: Critically low
15.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
47,752
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
62,204
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,368 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Aurangabad lost?
There was almost no forest around Aurangabad 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 March 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 Aurangabad right now?
The latest reading for Aurangabad shows an AQI of 112 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 21:45 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Rachnakar Colony, Aurangabad - MPCB, 2.7 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Aurangabad today?
At AQI 112 (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 Aurangabad been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Aurangabad's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 81 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 127 on Nov 8. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Aurangabad'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 Aurangabad lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Aurangabad 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 Aurangabad?
Aurangabad has an estimated 47,752 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 15.2% tree cover, 20 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Aurangabad need?
Aurangabad needs roughly 62,204 more trees to close a 20-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,368 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Aurangabad's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Kailash Nagar, 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 Kailash Nagar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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