City report · Karnataka, India
Kalaburagi Air quality today
Air quality in Kalaburagi currently reads AQI 91 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 91
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 30.8
- tree cover
- 18.4%
- trees in this area
- 56.9K
- more trees needed
- 35.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Chakkar Katta, Maktampura, Kalaburagi, Karnataka 585101, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 27, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kalaburagi · AQI 91 (Moderate)
Kalaburagi's tree count comes to 56,880 trees across 12.37 km² of land, 12 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 35,859 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kalaburagi today: AQI 91, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:45 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Mahatma Basaveswar Colony, Kalaburgi - KSPCB, 1 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
30.8
PM10
62.6
NO₂
18.1
O₃
34.8
SO₂
18.7
CO
0.9
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kalaburagi's daily AQI at 76 on average, from 37 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 120 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 Kalaburagi: Below target
18.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.37 km² of land.
Trees in this area
56,880
Target trees
92,739
More trees needed
35,859
CO₂ if planted / yr
788.9 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kalaburagi lost?
There was almost no forest around Kalaburagi 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 February 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 Kalaburagi right now?
The latest reading for Kalaburagi shows an AQI of 91 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 20:45 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Mahatma Basaveswar Colony, Kalaburgi - KSPCB, 1 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kalaburagi today?
At AQI 91 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Kalaburagi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kalaburagi's daily AQI at 76 on average, from 37 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 120 on Nov 8. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Kalaburagi'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 Kalaburagi lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kalaburagi 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 Kalaburagi?
Kalaburagi has an estimated 56,880 trees across the 12.37 km² of land measured — 18.4% tree cover, 12 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kalaburagi need?
Kalaburagi needs roughly 35,859 more trees to close a 12-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 788.9 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kalaburagi's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Chakkar Katta, 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 Chakkar Katta; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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