City report · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Kohat Air quality today
Air quality in Kohat currently reads AQI 219 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 219
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 158.0
- tree cover
- 19.1%
- trees in this area
- 60.0K
- more trees needed
- 81.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kohat, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kohat · AQI 219 (Very unhealthy)
Kohat's tree count comes to 60,004 trees across 12.57 km², 26 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 81,367 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kohat today: AQI 219, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 85 km, e.g. Peshawar and Chārsadda
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
158.0
PM10
77.5
NO₂
2.1
O₃
126.0
SO₂
9.1
CO
272.0
- 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 Kohat's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 68 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 9.
Where Kohat stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kohat: Critically low
19.1% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
60,004
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
81,367
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,790 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kohat lost?
There was almost no forest around Kohat 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 August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 956 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,100 ha
- Overall change
- +146 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kohat grew from about 956 hectares to 1,100 hectares, a net gain of about 146 hectares (+15%). New forest grew on about 181 hectares, while 34 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Kohat
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Peshawar48.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 268
- Charsadda68.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 13%
- Air quality
- 346
- Shabqadar71.2 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 15%
- Air quality
- 294
- Attock City86.7 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 155
- Mardan88.1 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 9%
- Air quality
- 184
- Tordher89.7 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 171
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kohat right now?
The latest reading for Kohat shows an AQI of 219 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kohat today?
At AQI 219 (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 Kohat been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kohat's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 68 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 9. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kohat lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kohat 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 Kohat grew from about 956 hectares to 1,100 hectares, a net gain of about 146 hectares (+15%). New forest grew on about 181 hectares, while 34 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Kohat?
Kohat has an estimated 60,004 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 19.1% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kohat need?
Kohat needs roughly 81,367 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,790 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kohat'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 Kohat; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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