City report · Madhya Pradesh, India
Khandwa Air quality today
Air quality in Khandwa currently reads AQI 176 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 176
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 102.6
- tree cover
- 23.5%
- trees in this area
- 73.8K
- more trees needed
- 51.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Budhwar Bazar, Triveni Colony, Gautam Nagar, Ramganj Ward, Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh 450001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 27, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Khandwa · AQI 176 (Unhealthy)
Khandwa's tree count comes to 73,827 trees across 12.57 km², 17 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 51,836 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Khandwa today: AQI 176, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Bhusawal and Pithampur
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
102.6
PM10
46.4
NO₂
32.0
O₃
66.0
SO₂
8.5
CO
455.0
- 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 Khandwa's daily AQI at 108 on average, from 82 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 168 on Nov 8.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Khandwa stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Khandwa: Critically low
23.5% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
73,827
Target trees
125,663
More trees needed
51,836
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,140 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Khandwa lost?
There was almost no forest around Khandwa 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.
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 Khandwa right now?
The latest reading for Khandwa shows an AQI of 176 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Khandwa today?
At AQI 176 (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 Khandwa been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Khandwa's daily AQI at 108 on average, from 82 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 168 on Nov 8. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Khandwa'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 Khandwa lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Khandwa 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 Khandwa?
Khandwa has an estimated 73,827 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 23.5% tree cover, 17 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Khandwa need?
Khandwa needs roughly 51,836 more trees to close a 17-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,140 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Khandwa'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 Budhwar Bazar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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