City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Bahawalpur Air quality today
Air quality in Bahawalpur currently reads AQI 474 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 474
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 312.1
- tree cover
- 11.3%
- trees in this area
- 35.5K
- more trees needed
- 106K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Old City Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bahawalpur · AQI 474 (Hazardous)
Bahawalpur's tree count comes to 35,500 trees across 12.57 km², 34 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 105,872 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bahawalpur today: AQI 474, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · DD office of Forest Department, 900 m away · median of 7 stations
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
312.1
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Hawanama, The Urban Unit, Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)
- 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 Bahawalpur's daily AQI at 160 on average, from 112 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 232 on Nov 5.
Where Bahawalpur stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bahawalpur: Critically low
11.3% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
35,500
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
105,872
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,329 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bahawalpur lost?
There was almost no forest around Bahawalpur 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 December 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 67 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 101 ha
- Overall change
- +34 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bahawalpur grew from about 67 hectares to 101 hectares, a net gain of about 34 hectares. New forest grew on about 34 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Bahawalpur right now?
The latest reading for Bahawalpur shows an AQI of 474 (Hazardous), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by 7 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is DD office of Forest Department, 900 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bahawalpur today?
At AQI 474 (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 Bahawalpur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bahawalpur's daily AQI at 160 on average, from 112 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 232 on Nov 5. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bahawalpur lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bahawalpur 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bahawalpur grew from about 67 hectares to 101 hectares, a net gain of about 34 hectares. New forest grew on about 34 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Bahawalpur?
Bahawalpur has an estimated 35,500 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 11.3% tree cover, 34 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bahawalpur need?
Bahawalpur needs roughly 105,872 more trees to close a 34-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,329 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bahawalpur's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Old City Bahawalpur, 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 Bahawalpur; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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