City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Chishtian Air quality today
Air quality in Chishtian currently reads AQI 275 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 275
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 162.8
- tree cover
- 8.5%
- trees in this area
- 26.7K
- more trees needed
- 115K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Chishtian Sharif, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 28, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Chishtian · AQI 275 (Very unhealthy)
Chishtian's tree count comes to 26,704 trees across 12.57 km², 37 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 114,668 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Chishtian today: AQI 275, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 5 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Vehari and Ārifwāla
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
162.8
PM10
86.4
NO₂
0.8
O₃
127.0
SO₂
7.6
CO
386.0
- 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 Chishtian's daily AQI at 198 on average, from 169 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 243 on Nov 5.
Where Chishtian stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Chishtian: Critically low
8.5% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
26,704
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
114,668
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,523 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Chishtian lost?
There was almost no forest around Chishtian 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 October 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Hasilpur32.3 km
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- 8%
- Air quality
- 441
- Harunabad34.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 268
- Bahawalnagar44.2 km
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- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 547
- Burewala45.7 km
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- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 202
- Vihari55.7 km
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- Tree cover
- 9%
- Air quality
- 283
- Arifwala58.4 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 722
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Chishtian right now?
The latest reading for Chishtian shows an AQI of 275 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 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 Chishtian today?
At AQI 275 (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 Chishtian been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Chishtian's daily AQI at 198 on average, from 169 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 243 on Nov 5. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Chishtian lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Chishtian 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 Chishtian?
Chishtian has an estimated 26,704 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 8.5% tree cover, 37 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Chishtian need?
Chishtian needs roughly 114,668 more trees to close a 37-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,523 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Chishtian'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 Chishtian Sharif; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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