City report · Punjab, India
Batāla Air quality today
Air quality in Batāla currently reads AQI 417 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 417
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 234.8
- tree cover
- 19.2%
- trees in this area
- 60.3K
- more trees needed
- 81.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bhandari Gate, Batala, Punjab 143505, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 8, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Batāla · AQI 417 (Hazardous)
Batāla's tree count comes to 60,319 trees across 12.57 km², 26 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 81,053 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Batāla today: AQI 417, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 11 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 11 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Amritsar Cantt. and Jalandhar
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
234.8
PM10
110.1
NO₂
11.6
O₃
118.0
SO₂
12.9
CO
634.0
- 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 Batāla's daily AQI at 161 on average, from 132 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 219 on Nov 6.
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 Batāla: Critically low
19.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
60,319
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
81,053
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,783 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Batāla lost?
There was very little forest around Batāla in 2000, about 22 hectares, and about 3 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 August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
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 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 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 |
What is causing deforestation around Batāla?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good31% · 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown69% · 2 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 147 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 278 ha
- Overall change
- +131 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Batāla grew from about 147 hectares to 278 hectares, a net gain of about 131 hectares (+89%). New forest grew on about 134 hectares, while 2 hectares were 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 Batāla right now?
The latest reading for Batāla shows an AQI of 417 (Hazardous), observed Nov 11, 10:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 11 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Batāla today?
At AQI 417 (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 Batāla been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Batāla's daily AQI at 161 on average, from 132 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 219 on Nov 6. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Batāla'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 Batāla lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Batāla in 2000, about 22 hectares, and about 3 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Batāla grew from about 147 hectares to 278 hectares, a net gain of about 131 hectares (+89%). New forest grew on about 134 hectares, while 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Batāla?
Batāla has an estimated 60,319 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 19.2% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Batāla need?
Batāla needs roughly 81,053 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,783 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Batāla'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 Bhandari Gate; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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