City report · Karnataka, India
Bidar Air quality today
Air quality in Bidar currently reads AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 102
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 40.2
- tree cover
- 18.1%
- trees in this area
- 56.9K
- more trees needed
- 53.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Gandhi Ganj, Nandi Colony, Bidar, Karnataka, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 27, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bidar · AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Bidar's tree count comes to 56,863 trees across 12.57 km², 17 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 53,093 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bidar today: AQI 102, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 6 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Hyderabad and Kalaburagi
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
40.2
PM10
48.9
NO₂
17.2
O₃
75.0
SO₂
8.6
CO
349.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bidar's daily AQI at 81 on average, from 36 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 135 on Nov 8.
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 Bidar: Critically low
18.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
56,863
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
53,093
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,168 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bidar lost?
There was almost no forest around Bidar 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
- 1,220 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,670 ha
- Overall change
- +449 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bidar grew from about 1,220 hectares to 1,670 hectares, a net gain of about 449 hectares (+37%). New forest grew on about 451 hectares, while 3 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 Bidar right now?
The latest reading for Bidar shows an AQI of 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bidar today?
At AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Bidar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bidar's daily AQI at 81 on average, from 36 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 135 on Nov 8. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Bidar'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 Bidar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bidar 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 Bidar grew from about 1,220 hectares to 1,670 hectares, a net gain of about 449 hectares (+37%). New forest grew on about 451 hectares, while 3 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Bidar?
Bidar has an estimated 56,863 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 18.1% tree cover, 17 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bidar need?
Bidar needs roughly 53,093 more trees to close a 17-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,168 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bidar'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 Gandhi Ganj; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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