City report · Madhya Pradesh, India
Indore Air quality today
Air quality in Indore currently reads AQI 118 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 118
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 42.5
- tree cover
- 19.5%
- trees in this area
- 61.3K
- more trees needed
- 48.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Gangotri Vihar, Indore, Madhya Pradesh 452002, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Indore · AQI 118 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Indore's tree count comes to 61,261 trees across 12.57 km², 15 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 48,695 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Indore today: AQI 118, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Residency Area, Indore - IMC, 5.1 km away · median of 3 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
42.5
PM10
70.4
NO₂
21.2
O₃
4.5
SO₂
20.1
CO
0.8
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- 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 Indore's daily AQI at 101 on average, from 84 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 161 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 Indore: Critically low
19.5% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
61,261
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
48,695
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,071 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Indore lost?
There was very little forest around Indore in 2000, about 14 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
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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Questions about Indore
What is the air quality (AQI) in Indore right now?
The latest reading for Indore shows an AQI of 118 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Residency Area, Indore - IMC, 5.1 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Indore today?
At AQI 118 (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 Indore been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Indore's daily AQI at 101 on average, from 84 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 8. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Indore'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 Indore lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Indore in 2000, about 14 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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 Indore?
Indore has an estimated 61,261 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 19.5% tree cover, 15 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Indore need?
Indore needs roughly 48,695 more trees to close a 15-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,071 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Indore's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Gangotri Vihar, 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 Gangotri Vihar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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