City report · Gujarat, India
Bhavnagar Air quality today
Air quality in Bhavnagar currently reads AQI 151 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 151
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 55.7
- tree cover
- 16.4%
- trees in this area
- 51.5K
- more trees needed
- 74.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Pragati Nagar, Rasala Camp, Bharatnagar, Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 28, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bhavnagar · AQI 151 (Unhealthy)
Bhavnagar's tree count comes to 51,522 trees across 12.57 km², 24 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 74,142 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bhavnagar today: AQI 151, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Vidhyanagar, Bhavnagar - Nexteng Enviro, 1.7 km away
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
55.7
PM10
134.3
NO₂
97.2
O₃
3.7
SO₂
18.4
CO
2.2
Data: OpenAQ · N/A, a network OpenAQ doesn't name
- 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 Bhavnagar's daily AQI at 83 on average, from 70 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 131 on Nov 5.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Bhavnagar stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bhavnagar: Critically low
16.4% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
51,522
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
74,142
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,631 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bhavnagar lost?
There was almost no forest around Bhavnagar 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 January 2017 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 Bhavnagar right now?
The latest reading for Bhavnagar shows an AQI of 151 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by the Vidhyanagar, Bhavnagar - Nexteng Enviro ground monitoring station, 1.7 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bhavnagar today?
At AQI 151 (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 Bhavnagar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bhavnagar's daily AQI at 83 on average, from 70 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 131 on Nov 5. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Bhavnagar'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 Bhavnagar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bhavnagar 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 Bhavnagar?
Bhavnagar has an estimated 51,522 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 16.4% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bhavnagar need?
Bhavnagar needs roughly 74,142 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,631 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bhavnagar's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Pragati Nagar, 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 Pragati Nagar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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