City report · West Bengal, India
Kharagpur Air quality today
Air quality in Kharagpur currently reads AQI 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 107
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 36.5
- tree cover
- 64.4%
- trees in this area
- 202K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around South Side, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721301, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kharagpur · AQI 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Kharagpur's tree count comes to 202,319 trees across 12.57 km², already at or above the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kharagpur today: AQI 107, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 5 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Baripada and Howrah
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
36.5
PM10
62.2
NO₂
11.9
O₃
107.0
SO₂
17.6
CO
662.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kharagpur's daily AQI at 177 on average, from 155 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 242 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 Kharagpur: Healthy tree cover
64.4% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
202,319
Target trees
202,319
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kharagpur lost?
There was almost no forest around Kharagpur 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 3,610 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 4,300 ha
- Overall change
- +690 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kharagpur grew from about 3,610 hectares to 4,300 hectares, a net gain of about 690 hectares (+19%). New forest grew on about 701 hectares, while 10 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 Kharagpur right now?
The latest reading for Kharagpur shows an AQI of 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kharagpur today?
At AQI 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Kharagpur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kharagpur's daily AQI at 177 on average, from 155 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 242 on Nov 8. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Kharagpur'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 Kharagpur lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kharagpur 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 Kharagpur grew from about 3,610 hectares to 4,300 hectares, a net gain of about 690 hectares (+19%). New forest grew on about 701 hectares, while 10 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Kharagpur?
Kharagpur has an estimated 202,319 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 64.4% tree cover, already past the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kharagpur need?
Kharagpur has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Kharagpur'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 South Side; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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