City report · Rajasthan, India
Kota Air quality today
Air quality in Kota currently reads AQI 191 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 191
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 113.0
- tree cover
- 20.1%
- trees in this area
- 55.6K
- more trees needed
- 55.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Agrasen Bazar, Rampura, Kota, Rajasthan 324006, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kota · AQI 191 (Unhealthy)
Kota's tree count comes to 55,632 trees across 11.07 km² of land, 20 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 55,078 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kota today: AQI 191, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:45 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Nayapura, Kota - RSPCB, 2.2 km away · median of 3 stations
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
113.0
PM10
227.0
NO₂
118.3
O₃
9.7
SO₂
27.9
CO
3.3
Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)
- 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 Kota's daily AQI at 97 on average, from 79 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 141 on Nov 4.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Kota stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kota: Critically low
20.1% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.07 km² of land.
Trees in this area
55,632
Target trees
110,710
More trees needed
55,078
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,212 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kota lost?
There was very little forest around Kota in 2000, about 22 hectares, and about 3 hectares of it has been lost 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.
The worst year was 2010, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Kota?
- Towns and roadscleared for good53% · 2 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown47% · 2 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 193 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 189 ha
- Overall change
- −4 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kota stayed about the same size, at about 189 hectares: new forest grew on about 19 hectares, and about 23 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 Kota right now?
The latest reading for Kota shows an AQI of 191 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 20:45 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Nayapura, Kota - RSPCB, 2.2 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 Kota today?
At AQI 191 (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 Kota been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kota's daily AQI at 97 on average, from 79 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 141 on Nov 4. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Kota'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 Kota lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Kota in 2000, about 22 hectares, and about 3 hectares of it has been lost 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 Kota stayed about the same size, at about 189 hectares: new forest grew on about 19 hectares, and about 23 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Kota?
Kota has an estimated 55,632 trees across the 11.07 km² of land measured — 20.1% tree cover, 20 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kota need?
Kota needs roughly 55,078 more trees to close a 20-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,212 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kota's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Agrasen Bazar, 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 Agrasen Bazar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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