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Kolhāpur Air quality today
Air quality in Kolhāpur currently reads AQI 121 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 121
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 43.5
- tree cover
- 33.1%
- trees in this area
- 103K
- more trees needed
- 5.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shivaji Udyam Nagar, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 30, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kolhāpur · AQI 121 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Kolhāpur's tree count comes to 102,635 trees across 12.41 km² of land, 2 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 5,891 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kolhāpur today: AQI 121, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Shivaji University, Kolhapur - MPCB, 2.2 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
43.5
PM10
103.7
NO₂
141.3
O₃
8.8
SO₂
8.4
CO
0.9
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- 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 Kolhāpur's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 63 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 7.
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 Kolhāpur: Below target
33.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.41 km² of land.
Trees in this area
102,635
Target trees
108,526
More trees needed
5,891
CO₂ if planted / yr
129.6 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kolhāpur lost?
There was almost no forest around Kolhāpur 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 January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 234 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 246 ha
- Overall change
- +12 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kolhāpur grew from about 234 hectares to 246 hectares, a net gain of about 12 hectares (+5.1%). New forest grew on about 28 hectares, while 16 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 Kolhāpur right now?
The latest reading for Kolhāpur shows an AQI of 121 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Shivaji University, Kolhapur - MPCB, 2.2 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kolhāpur today?
At AQI 121 (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 Kolhāpur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kolhāpur's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 63 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 7. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Kolhāpur'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 Kolhāpur lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kolhāpur 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 Kolhāpur grew from about 234 hectares to 246 hectares, a net gain of about 12 hectares (+5.1%). New forest grew on about 28 hectares, while 16 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Kolhāpur?
Kolhāpur has an estimated 102,635 trees across the 12.41 km² of land measured — 33.1% tree cover, 2 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kolhāpur need?
Kolhāpur needs roughly 5,891 more trees to close a 2-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 129.6 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kolhāpur's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Shivaji Udyam Nagar, 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 Shivaji Udyam Nagar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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