City report · Chhattisgarh, India
Durg Air quality today
Air quality in Durg currently reads AQI 95 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 95
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 32.8
- tree cover
- 23.3%
- trees in this area
- 70.3K
- more trees needed
- 20.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Teachers Colony, Dega Para, Chhattisgarh 491001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Durg · AQI 95 (Moderate)
Durg's tree count comes to 70,344 trees across 12.08 km² of land, 7 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 20,228 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Durg today: AQI 95, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:30 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · 32Bungalows, Bhilai - CECB, 4 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
32.8
PM10
73.7
NO₂
35.1
O₃
6.3
SO₂
19.1
CO
0.7
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Durg's daily AQI at 175 on average, from 163 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 211 on Nov 8.
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 Durg: Below target
23.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.08 km² of land.
Trees in this area
70,344
Target trees
90,572
More trees needed
20,228
CO₂ if planted / yr
445.0 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Durg lost?
There was almost no forest around Durg 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
- 252 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 356 ha
- Overall change
- +104 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Durg grew from about 252 hectares to 356 hectares, a net gain of about 104 hectares (+41%). New forest grew on about 112 hectares, while 8 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 Durg right now?
The latest reading for Durg shows an AQI of 95 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 20:30 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is 32Bungalows, Bhilai - CECB, 4 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Durg today?
At AQI 95 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Durg been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Durg's daily AQI at 175 on average, from 163 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 211 on Nov 8. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Durg'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 Durg lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Durg 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 Durg grew from about 252 hectares to 356 hectares, a net gain of about 104 hectares (+41%). New forest grew on about 112 hectares, while 8 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Durg?
Durg has an estimated 70,344 trees across the 12.08 km² of land measured — 23.3% tree cover, 7 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Durg need?
Durg needs roughly 20,228 more trees to close a 7-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 445.0 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Durg's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Teachers Colony, 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 Teachers Colony; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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