City report · Sindh, Pakistan
Dadu Air quality today
Air quality in Dadu currently reads AQI 177 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 177
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 86.5
- tree cover
- 4.7%
- trees in this area
- 14.8K
- more trees needed
- 111K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mastoi Muhalla Wapda Colony, Dādu, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 27, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dadu · AQI 177 (Unhealthy)
Dadu's tree count comes to 14,751 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 35 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 110,787 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dadu today: AQI 177, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 6 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Khairpur and Sukkur
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
86.5
PM10
37.4
NO₂
11.7
O₃
58.0
SO₂
5.3
CO
426.0
- 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 Dadu's daily AQI at 77 on average, from 62 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 118 on Nov 9.
Where Dadu stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Dadu: Critically low
4.7% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
14,751
Target trees
125,538
More trees needed
110,787
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,437 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dadu lost?
There was almost no forest around Dadu 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 December 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 Dadu right now?
The latest reading for Dadu shows an AQI of 177 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dadu today?
At AQI 177 (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 Dadu been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dadu's daily AQI at 77 on average, from 62 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 118 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Dadu lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Dadu 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 Dadu?
Dadu has an estimated 14,751 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 4.7% tree cover, 35 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dadu need?
Dadu needs roughly 110,787 more trees to close a 35-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,437 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Dadu'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 Mastoi Muhalla Wapda Colony; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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