City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Chakwal Air quality today
Air quality in Chakwal currently reads AQI 256 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 256
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 148.3
- tree cover
- 3.8%
- trees in this area
- 11.9K
- more trees needed
- 129K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Chakwal, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 11, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Chakwal · AQI 256 (Very unhealthy)
Chakwal's tree count comes to 11,938 trees across 12.57 km², 41 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 129,434 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Chakwal today: AQI 256, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 7 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Rawalpindi and Jhelum
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
148.3
PM10
99.9
NO₂
42.9
O₃
28.0
SO₂
9.5
CO
354.0
- 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 Chakwal's daily AQI at 133 on average, from 70 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 236 on Nov 10.
Where Chakwal stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Chakwal: Critically low
3.8% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
11,938
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
129,434
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,848 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Chakwal lost?
There was almost no forest around Chakwal 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 June 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Chakwal
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Mandi Bahauddin70.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 13%
- Air quality
- 394
- Rawalpindi76.0 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 184
- Jhelum81.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 26%
- Air quality
- 243
- New Mirpur City87.0 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 34%
- Air quality
- 243
- Jauharabad89.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 250
- Islamabad89.4 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 50%
- Air quality
- 180
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Chakwal right now?
The latest reading for Chakwal shows an AQI of 256 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 03:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 125 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 Chakwal today?
At AQI 256 (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 Chakwal been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Chakwal's daily AQI at 133 on average, from 70 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 236 on Nov 10. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Chakwal lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Chakwal 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 Chakwal?
Chakwal has an estimated 11,938 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.8% tree cover, 41 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Chakwal need?
Chakwal needs roughly 129,434 more trees to close a 41-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,848 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Chakwal'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 Chakwal; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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