City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Dera Ghazi Khan Air quality today
Air quality in Dera Ghazi Khan currently reads AQI 659 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 659
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 405.4
- tree cover
- 8.7%
- trees in this area
- 27.3K
- more trees needed
- 114K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Fareed Abad BLOCK 18, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dera Ghazi Khan · AQI 659 (Hazardous)
Dera Ghazi Khan's tree count comes to 27,332 trees across 12.57 km², 36 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 114,040 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dera Ghazi Khan today: AQI 659, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Divisional Public School and College, DG Khan, 1.2 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
405.4
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Hawanama, The Urban Unit
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dera Ghazi Khan's daily AQI at 195 on average, from 152 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 251 on Nov 11.
Where Dera Ghazi Khan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Dera Ghazi Khan: Critically low
8.7% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
27,332
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
114,040
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,509 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dera Ghazi Khan lost?
There was almost no forest around Dera Ghazi Khan 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 July 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 Dera Ghazi Khan right now?
The latest reading for Dera Ghazi Khan shows an AQI of 659 (Hazardous), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Divisional Public School and College, DG Khan, 1.2 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dera Ghazi Khan today?
At AQI 659 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Dera Ghazi Khan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dera Ghazi Khan's daily AQI at 195 on average, from 152 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 251 on Nov 11. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Dera Ghazi Khan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Dera Ghazi Khan 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 Dera Ghazi Khan?
Dera Ghazi Khan has an estimated 27,332 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 8.7% tree cover, 36 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dera Ghazi Khan need?
Dera Ghazi Khan needs roughly 114,040 more trees to close a 36-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,509 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Dera Ghazi Khan's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Fareed Abad BLOCK 18, 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 Fareed Abad BLOCK 18; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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