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City report · Sindh, Pakistan

Badin Air quality today

Air quality in Badin currently reads AQI 138 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

Air quality right now

AQI 138

Unhealthy for sensitive groups

Main pollutant: PM2.5
PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
52.3
tree cover
9.3%
trees in this area
29.2K
more trees needed
80.7K

Measured across a 2 km radius around Badin, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 29, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.

Badin · AQI 138 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)

Dark green marks tree cover detected inside the study radius.Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search, captured Oct 29, 2026

Badin's tree count comes to 29,188 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 26 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 80,658 more trees would close the gap.

Air quality detail

Air quality in Badin today: AQI 138, Unhealthy for sensitive groups

Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.

Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Hyderabad and Mīrpur Khās

Health signal

Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

PM2.5

52.3

PM10

30.7

NO₂

1.1

O₃

138.0

SO₂

4.9

CO

167.0

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 Badin's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 64 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 97 on Nov 5.

Last 7 daysavg 67 · peak 97
Nov 5: AQI 73 (peak 97)Nov 6: AQI 65 (peak 73)Nov 7: AQI 69 (peak 76)Nov 8: AQI 66 (peak 73)Nov 9: AQI 64 (peak 69)Nov 10: AQI 68 (peak 76)Nov 11: AQI 64 (peak 72)
Nov 5Nov 11

Where Badin stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest

Tree cover detail

Tree cover in Badin: Critically low

9.3% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.

26 points below target

Trees in this area

29,188

Target trees

109,846

More trees needed

80,658

CO₂ if planted / yr

1,774 t

Deforestation · 2001–2025

How much forest has Badin lost?

There was almost no forest around Badin 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.

Satellite image of the area around Badin, January 2017

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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.

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  • Talhar

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    25.5 km
    Tree cover
    12%
    Air quality
    138
  • 60.2 km
    Tree cover
    13%
    Air quality
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  • Digri

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    Tree cover
    8%
    Air quality
    102
  • 90.3 km
    Tree cover
    18%
    Air quality
    148
  • Kunri

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    93.7 km
    Tree cover
    8%
    Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Badin right now?

The latest reading for Badin shows an AQI of 138 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

Is it safe to exercise outside in Badin today?

At AQI 138 (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 Badin been like this week?

Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Badin's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 64 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 97 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.

How much forest has the area around Badin lost since 2001?

There was almost no forest around Badin 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 Badin?

Badin has an estimated 29,188 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 9.3% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.

How many more trees does Badin need?

Badin needs roughly 80,658 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,774 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.

How are Badin's air quality and tree cover measured?

Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. 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 Badin; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.

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