City report · Odisha, India
Cuttack Air quality today
Air quality in Cuttack currently reads AQI 44 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 44
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 8.0
- tree cover
- 25.4%
- trees in this area
- 77.7K
- more trees needed
- 14.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Siba Bazar, Kataka, Odisha 753001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Cuttack · AQI 44 (Good)
Cuttack's tree count comes to 77,722 trees across 12.24 km² of land, 5 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 14,076 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Cuttack today: AQI 44, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:15 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · CDA Area, Cuttack - OSPCB, 4.2 km away
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
8.0
PM10
30.0
NO₂
19.9
O₃
6.3
SO₂
22.0
CO
0.2
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Cuttack's daily AQI at 166 on average, from 121 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 204 on Nov 6.
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 Cuttack: Below target
25.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.24 km² of land.
Trees in this area
77,722
Target trees
91,798
More trees needed
14,076
CO₂ if planted / yr
309.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Cuttack lost?
There was almost no forest around Cuttack 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 619 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 699 ha
- Overall change
- +80 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Cuttack grew from about 619 hectares to 699 hectares, a net gain of about 80 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 98 hectares, while 18 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 Cuttack right now?
The latest reading for Cuttack shows an AQI of 44 (Good), measured Nov 11, 21:15 local time by the CDA Area, Cuttack - OSPCB ground monitoring station, 4.2 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Cuttack today?
At AQI 44 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Cuttack been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Cuttack's daily AQI at 166 on average, from 121 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 204 on Nov 6. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Cuttack'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 Cuttack lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Cuttack 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 Cuttack grew from about 619 hectares to 699 hectares, a net gain of about 80 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 98 hectares, while 18 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Cuttack?
Cuttack has an estimated 77,722 trees across the 12.24 km² of land measured — 25.4% tree cover, 5 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Cuttack need?
Cuttack needs roughly 14,076 more trees to close a 5-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 309.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Cuttack's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Siba Bazar, 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 Siba Bazar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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