City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Gujrat Air quality today
Air quality in Gujrat currently reads AQI 219 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 219
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 143.3
- tree cover
- 5.2%
- trees in this area
- 16.3K
- more trees needed
- 125K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Dhaki Bazaar Area, Gujrat, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 13, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Gujrat · AQI 219 (Very unhealthy)
Gujrat's tree count comes to 16,336 trees across 12.57 km², 40 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 125,035 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Gujrat today: AQI 219, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Opposite Zahoor Elahi Stadium, Gujrat, 1.4 km away · median of 3 stations
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
143.3
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Hawanama, The Urban Unit
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Gujrat's daily AQI at 158 on average, from 114 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 279 on Nov 10.
Where Gujrat stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Gujrat: Critically low
5.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
16,336
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
125,035
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,751 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Gujrat lost?
There was almost no forest around Gujrat 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 Gujrat right now?
The latest reading for Gujrat shows an AQI of 219 (Very unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Opposite Zahoor Elahi Stadium, Gujrat, 1.4 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Gujrat today?
At AQI 219 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Gujrat been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Gujrat's daily AQI at 158 on average, from 114 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 279 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Gujrat lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Gujrat 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 Gujrat?
Gujrat has an estimated 16,336 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 5.2% tree cover, 40 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Gujrat need?
Gujrat needs roughly 125,035 more trees to close a 40-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,751 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Gujrat's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Dhaki Bazaar Area, 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 Dhaki Bazaar Area; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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