City report · Sindh, Pakistan
Jacobabad Air quality today
Air quality in Jacobabad currently reads AQI 486 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 486
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 323.2
- tree cover
- 3.5%
- trees in this area
- 10.9K
- more trees needed
- 130K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Jacobabad, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Jacobabad · AQI 486 (Hazardous)
Jacobabad's tree count comes to 10,941 trees across 12.51 km² of land, 42 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 129,724 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Jacobabad today: AQI 486, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Sukkur and Khairpur
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
323.2
PM10
97.6
NO₂
11.9
O₃
92.0
SO₂
15.1
CO
662.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Jacobabad's daily AQI at 105 on average, from 71 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 179 on Nov 10.
Where Jacobabad stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Jacobabad: Critically low
3.5% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.51 km² of land.
Trees in this area
10,941
Target trees
140,665
More trees needed
129,724
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,854 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Jacobabad lost?
There was almost no forest around Jacobabad 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 April 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Jacobabad
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Dera Murad Jamali36.1 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 478
- Shikarpur41.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 9%
- Air quality
- 286
- Garhi Khairo51.4 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 333
- Shahdad Kot71.0 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 306
- Sukkur76.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 266
- Pano Aqil81.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 19%
- Air quality
- 226
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Jacobabad right now?
The latest reading for Jacobabad shows an AQI of 486 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Jacobabad today?
At AQI 486 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Jacobabad been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Jacobabad's daily AQI at 105 on average, from 71 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 179 on Nov 10. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Jacobabad lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Jacobabad 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 Jacobabad?
Jacobabad has an estimated 10,941 trees across the 12.51 km² of land measured — 3.5% tree cover, 42 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Jacobabad need?
Jacobabad needs roughly 129,724 more trees to close a 42-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,854 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Jacobabad'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 Jacobabad; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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