City report · Haryana, India
Karnāl Air quality today
Air quality in Karnāl currently reads AQI 182 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 182
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 100.0
- tree cover
- 19.1%
- trees in this area
- 60.0K
- more trees needed
- 65.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shakti Colony, Karnal, Haryana 132001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Karnāl · AQI 182 (Unhealthy)
Karnāl's tree count comes to 60,004 trees across 12.57 km², 21 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 65,659 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Karnāl today: AQI 182, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ and World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Sector-18, Panipat, India, 21.6 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
100.0
PM10
169.6
NO₂
24.4
O₃
9.5
SO₂
131.5
CO
0.6
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, World Air Quality Index Project, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India), CPCB - India Central Pollution Control Board
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Karnāl's daily AQI at 198 on average, from 173 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 270 on Nov 10.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Karnāl stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Karnāl: Critically low
19.1% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
60,004
Target trees
125,663
More trees needed
65,659
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,444 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Karnāl lost?
There was almost no forest around Karnāl 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 May 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 Karnāl
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Panipat33.9 km
India
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 182
- Thānesar34.6 km
India
- Tree cover
- 15%
- Air quality
- 169
- Yamuna Nagar56.4 km
India
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 193
- Kaithal57.8 km
India
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 237
- Sahāranpur62.2 km
India
- Tree cover
- 19%
- Air quality
- 155
- Muzaffarnagar73.7 km
India
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 170
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Questions about Karnāl
What is the air quality (AQI) in Karnāl right now?
The latest reading for Karnāl shows an AQI of 182 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Sector-18, Panipat, India, 21.6 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Karnāl today?
At AQI 182 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Karnāl been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Karnāl's daily AQI at 198 on average, from 173 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 270 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Karnāl'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 Karnāl lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Karnāl 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 Karnāl?
Karnāl has an estimated 60,004 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 19.1% tree cover, 21 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Karnāl need?
Karnāl needs roughly 65,659 more trees to close a 21-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,444 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Karnāl's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Shakti Colony, 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 Shakti Colony; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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