City report · Haryana, India
Kaithal Air quality today
Air quality in Kaithal currently reads AQI 213 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 213
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 138.0
- tree cover
- 9.8%
- trees in this area
- 30.4K
- more trees needed
- 109K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bidkyar Lake, Kaithal, Haryana 136027, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kaithal · AQI 213 (Very unhealthy)
Kaithal's tree count comes to 30,418 trees across 12.42 km² of land, 35 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 109,257 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kaithal today: AQI 213, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:45 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Rishi Nagar, Kaithal - HSPCB, 1.5 km away
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
138.0
PM10
250.9
NO₂
31.7
O₃
7.1
SO₂
82.4
CO
1.2
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- 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 Kaithal's daily AQI at 196 on average, from 171 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 250 on Nov 10.
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 Kaithal: Critically low
9.8% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.42 km² of land.
Trees in this area
30,418
Target trees
139,675
More trees needed
109,257
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,404 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kaithal lost?
There was almost no forest around Kaithal 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
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kaithal right now?
The latest reading for Kaithal shows an AQI of 213 (Very unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 19:45 local time by the Rishi Nagar, Kaithal - HSPCB ground monitoring station, 1.5 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kaithal today?
At AQI 213 (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 Kaithal been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kaithal's daily AQI at 196 on average, from 171 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 250 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Kaithal'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 Kaithal lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kaithal 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 Kaithal?
Kaithal has an estimated 30,418 trees across the 12.42 km² of land measured — 9.8% tree cover, 35 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kaithal need?
Kaithal needs roughly 109,257 more trees to close a 35-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,404 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kaithal's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Bidkyar Lake, 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 Bidkyar Lake; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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