City report · Jilin, China
Baicheng Air quality today
Air quality in Baicheng currently reads AQI 156 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 156
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 62.0
- tree cover
- 6.3%
- trees in this area
- 19.8K
- more trees needed
- 106K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Taobei District, Baicheng, Jilin, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Baicheng · AQI 156 (Unhealthy)
Baicheng's tree count comes to 19,792 trees across 12.57 km², 34 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 105,872 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Baicheng today: AQI 156, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 23:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · City EPA, Baicheng (白城市环保局), 900 m away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
62.0
PM10
83.3
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Environmental Protection Agency of Jilin Province (吉林省环境保护厅), China National Urban air quality real-time publishing platform (全国城市空气质量实时发布平台)
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Baicheng's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 42 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 94 on Nov 11.
Where Baicheng stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Baicheng: Critically low
6.3% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
19,792
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
105,872
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,329 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Baicheng lost?
There was almost no forest around Baicheng 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.
2018: satellite photo from June 2018 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 Baicheng right now?
The latest reading for Baicheng shows an AQI of 156 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 23:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is City EPA, Baicheng (白城市环保局), 900 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Baicheng today?
At AQI 156 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Baicheng been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Baicheng's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 42 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 94 on Nov 11. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Baicheng lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Baicheng 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 Baicheng?
Baicheng has an estimated 19,792 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 6.3% tree cover, 34 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Baicheng need?
Baicheng needs roughly 105,872 more trees to close a 34-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,329 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Baicheng's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Taobei District, 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 Taobei District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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