City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Bahawalnagar Air quality today
Air quality in Bahawalnagar currently reads AQI 504 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 504
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 321.9
- tree cover
- 13.5%
- trees in this area
- 42.3K
- more trees needed
- 98.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bahawalnagar, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 28, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bahawalnagar · AQI 504 (Hazardous)
Bahawalnagar's tree count comes to 42,327 trees across 12.54 km² of land, 32 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 98,762 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bahawalnagar today: AQI 504, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 14 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 14 station cities within 165 km, e.g. Ārifwāla and Vehari
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
321.9
PM10
222.1
NO₂
14.1
O₃
73.0
SO₂
11.4
CO
668.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bahawalnagar's daily AQI at 222 on average, from 178 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 297 on Nov 10.
Where Bahawalnagar stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bahawalnagar: Critically low
13.5% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.54 km² of land.
Trees in this area
42,327
Target trees
141,089
More trees needed
98,762
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,173 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bahawalnagar lost?
There was almost no forest around Bahawalnagar 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 October 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Bahawalnagar
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Arifwala37.1 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 722
- Pakpattan40.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 297
- Chishtian44.2 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 9%
- Air quality
- 275
- Harunabad44.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 268
- Sri Ganganagar60.6 km
India
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 516
- Burewala60.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 202
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Bahawalnagar right now?
The latest reading for Bahawalnagar shows an AQI of 504 (Hazardous), observed Nov 11, 03:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 14 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bahawalnagar today?
At AQI 504 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Bahawalnagar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bahawalnagar's daily AQI at 222 on average, from 178 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 297 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bahawalnagar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bahawalnagar 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 Bahawalnagar?
Bahawalnagar has an estimated 42,327 trees across the 12.54 km² of land measured — 13.5% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bahawalnagar need?
Bahawalnagar needs roughly 98,762 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,173 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bahawalnagar'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 Bahawalnagar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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