City report · Bauchi, Nigeria
Bauchi Air quality today
Air quality in Bauchi currently reads AQI 65 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 65
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 16.0
- tree cover
- 2.1%
- trees in this area
- 6.6K
- more trees needed
- 87.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bauchi 740102, Bauchi, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 30, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bauchi · AQI 65 (Moderate)
Bauchi's tree count comes to 6,597 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 87,650 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bauchi today: AQI 65, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
16.0
PM10
44.8
NO₂
0.9
O₃
84.0
SO₂
0.4
CO
155.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bauchi's daily AQI at 106 on average, from 84 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 156 on Nov 6.
Where Bauchi stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bauchi: Critically low
2.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
6,597
Target trees
94,247
More trees needed
87,650
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,928 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bauchi lost?
There was almost no forest around Bauchi 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 February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 117 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 114 ha
- Overall change
- −3 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bauchi stayed about the same size, at about 114 hectares: new forest grew on about 5 hectares, and about 8 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 Bauchi right now?
The latest reading for Bauchi shows an AQI of 65 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bauchi today?
At AQI 65 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Bauchi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bauchi's daily AQI at 106 on average, from 84 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 156 on Nov 6. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bauchi lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bauchi 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 Bauchi stayed about the same size, at about 114 hectares: new forest grew on about 5 hectares, and about 8 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Bauchi?
Bauchi has an estimated 6,597 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.1% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bauchi need?
Bauchi needs roughly 87,650 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,928 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bauchi'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 Bauchi 740102; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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