City report · Uttar Pradesh, India
Jaunpur Air quality today
Air quality in Jaunpur currently reads AQI 237 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
AQI 237
Air quality right now
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 155.5
- tree cover
- 28.8%
- trees in this area
- 87.9K
- more trees needed
- 49.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Rizwikhan, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh 222001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Jaunpur · AQI 237 (Very unhealthy)
Jaunpur's tree count comes to 87,944 trees across 12.22 km² of land, 16 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 49,469 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Jaunpur today: AQI 237, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 85 km, e.g. Varanasi and Mughalsarai Railway Settlement
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
155.5
PM10
137.8
NO₂
37.1
O₃
28.0
SO₂
21.5
CO
993.0
- 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 Jaunpur's daily AQI at 217 on average, from 206 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 297 on Nov 7.
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 Jaunpur: Below target
28.8% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.22 km² of land.
Trees in this area
87,944
Target trees
137,413
More trees needed
49,469
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,088 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Jaunpur lost?
There was almost no forest around Jaunpur 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
- 611 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 685 ha
- Overall change
- +74 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Jaunpur grew from about 611 hectares to 685 hectares, a net gain of about 74 hectares (+12%). New forest grew on about 89 hectares, while 15 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 Jaunpur right now?
The latest reading for Jaunpur shows an AQI of 237 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Jaunpur today?
At AQI 237 (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 Jaunpur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Jaunpur's daily AQI at 217 on average, from 206 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 297 on Nov 7. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Jaunpur'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 Jaunpur lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Jaunpur 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 Jaunpur grew from about 611 hectares to 685 hectares, a net gain of about 74 hectares (+12%). New forest grew on about 89 hectares, while 15 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Jaunpur?
Jaunpur has an estimated 87,944 trees across the 12.22 km² of land measured — 28.8% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Jaunpur need?
Jaunpur needs roughly 49,469 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,088 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Jaunpur'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 Rizwikhan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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