City report · Uttar Pradesh, India
Ghazīpur Air quality today
Air quality in Ghazīpur currently reads AQI 174 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 174
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 70.7
- tree cover
- 24.5%
- trees in this area
- 58.9K
- more trees needed
- 37.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Gandhipath, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh 233001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ghazīpur · AQI 174 (Unhealthy)
Ghazīpur's tree count comes to 58,881 trees across 9.62 km² of land, 16 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 37,251 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ghazīpur today: AQI 174, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 18 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 18 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Buxar and Mughalsarai Railway Settlement
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
70.7
PM10
87.1
NO₂
7.7
O₃
139.0
SO₂
16.8
CO
545.0
- 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 Ghazīpur's daily AQI at 216 on average, from 188 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 321 on Nov 8.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Ghazīpur stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ghazīpur: Below target
24.5% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.62 km² of land.
Trees in this area
58,881
Target trees
96,132
More trees needed
37,251
CO₂ if planted / yr
819.5 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ghazīpur lost?
There was almost no forest around Ghazīpur 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 March 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 452 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 505 ha
- Overall change
- +53 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Ghazīpur grew from about 452 hectares to 505 hectares, a net gain of about 53 hectares (+12%). New forest grew on about 75 hectares, while 22 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Ghazīpur
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
Build your own
Compare Ghazīpur with anywhere
This place
Ghazīpur
Use this data
Put Ghazīpur's numbers on your site
Free to embed. Updates itself as the measurement refreshes.
Frequently asked
Questions about Ghazīpur
What is the air quality (AQI) in Ghazīpur right now?
The latest reading for Ghazīpur shows an AQI of 174 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 10:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 18 ground-station cities within 245 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 Ghazīpur today?
At AQI 174 (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 Ghazīpur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ghazīpur's daily AQI at 216 on average, from 188 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 321 on Nov 8. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Ghazīpur'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 Ghazīpur lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ghazīpur 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 Ghazīpur grew from about 452 hectares to 505 hectares, a net gain of about 53 hectares (+12%). New forest grew on about 75 hectares, while 22 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Ghazīpur?
Ghazīpur has an estimated 58,881 trees across the 9.62 km² of land measured — 24.5% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ghazīpur need?
Ghazīpur needs roughly 37,251 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 819.5 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ghazīpur'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 Gandhipath; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
See your own area
What does your neighborhood look like?
Pick any point and radius to get the same air-quality and tree-cover breakdown.
Check my address