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Huaibei Air quality today

Air quality in Huaibei currently reads AQI 114 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

Air quality right now

AQI 114

Unhealthy for sensitive groups

Main pollutant: PM2.5
PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
40.8
tree cover
33.3%
trees in this area
105K
more trees needed
5.3K

Measured across a 2 km radius around Xiangshan District, Huaibei, Huaibei, Anhui, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 31, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.

Huaibei · AQI 114 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)

Dark green marks tree cover detected inside the study radius.Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search, captured Aug 31, 2026

Huaibei's tree count comes to 104,510 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 2 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 5,335 more trees would close the gap.

Air quality detail

Air quality in Huaibei today: AQI 114, Unhealthy for sensitive groups

Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 23:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.

Ground station · Monitoring station, Huaibei (淮北监测站), 800 m away · median of 3 stations

Health signal

Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

PM2.5

40.8

PM10

63.1

NO₂

—

O₃

—

SO₂

—

CO

—

Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Anhui Environmental Protection Agency (安徽省生态环境厅)

Outdoor exercise
Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
Windows
Close them to keep the outside air out
Mask
Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
Air purifier
Run one, especially in bedrooms

Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Huaibei's daily AQI at 118 on average, from 63 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 228 on Nov 6.

Last 7 days · model estimateavg 118 · peak 228
Nov 5: AQI 148 (peak 199)Nov 6: AQI 169 (peak 228)Nov 7: AQI 104 (peak 145)Nov 8: AQI 63 (peak 87)Nov 9: AQI 85 (peak 168)Nov 10: AQI 112 (peak 168)Nov 11: AQI 146 (peak 150)
Nov 5Nov 11

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Tree cover detail

Tree cover in Huaibei: Below target

33.3% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.

2 points below target

Trees in this area

104,510

Target trees

109,845

More trees needed

5,335

CO₂ if planted / yr

117.4 t

Deforestation · 2001–2025

How much forest has Huaibei lost?

There was almost no forest around Huaibei 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.

Satellite image of the area around Huaibei, July 2017

2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.

Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020

Forest in 2000
962 ha
Forest in 2020
1,430 ha
Overall change
+467 hamore forest than in 2000

Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Huaibei grew from about 962 hectares to 1,430 hectares, a net gain of about 467 hectares (+49%). New forest grew on about 471 hectares, while 4 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 Huaibei right now?

The latest reading for Huaibei shows an AQI of 114 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 23:00 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Monitoring station, Huaibei (淮北监测站), 800 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

Is it safe to exercise outside in Huaibei today?

At AQI 114 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.

What has the air quality in Huaibei been like this week?

Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Huaibei's daily AQI at 118 on average, from 63 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 228 on Nov 6. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.

How much forest has the area around Huaibei lost since 2001?

There was almost no forest around Huaibei 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 Huaibei grew from about 962 hectares to 1,430 hectares, a net gain of about 467 hectares (+49%). New forest grew on about 471 hectares, while 4 hectares were lost.

What is the tree count in Huaibei?

Huaibei has an estimated 104,510 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 33.3% tree cover, 2 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.

How many more trees does Huaibei need?

Huaibei needs roughly 5,335 more trees to close a 2-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 117.4 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.

How are Huaibei's air quality and tree cover measured?

Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Xiangshan District, 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 Xiangshan District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.

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