City report · Punjab, India
Barnāla Air quality today
Air quality in Barnāla currently reads AQI 266 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
AQI 266
Air quality right now
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 197.0
- tree cover
- 8.8%
- trees in this area
- 27.6K
- more trees needed
- 114K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Barnala, Punjab 148101, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 8, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Barnāla · AQI 266 (Very unhealthy)
Barnāla's tree count comes to 27,646 trees across 12.57 km², 36 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 113,726 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Barnāla today: AQI 266, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 16 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 16 station cities within 165 km, e.g. Khanna and Patiala
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
197.0
PM10
178.8
NO₂
29.8
O₃
48.0
SO₂
13.5
CO
979.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Barnāla's daily AQI at 197 on average, from 161 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 270 on Nov 9.
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 Barnāla: Critically low
8.8% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
27,646
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
113,726
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,502 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Barnāla lost?
There was very little forest around Barnāla in 2000, about 19 hectares, and about 4 hectares of it has been lost 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 June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2010, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
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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Questions about Barnāla
What is the air quality (AQI) in Barnāla right now?
The latest reading for Barnāla shows an AQI of 266 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 16 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Barnāla today?
At AQI 266 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Barnāla been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Barnāla's daily AQI at 197 on average, from 161 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 270 on Nov 9. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Barnāla'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 Barnāla lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Barnāla in 2000, about 19 hectares, and about 4 hectares of it has been lost 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 Barnāla?
Barnāla has an estimated 27,646 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 8.8% tree cover, 36 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Barnāla need?
Barnāla needs roughly 113,726 more trees to close a 36-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,502 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Barnāla'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 Barnala; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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