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Kŭlob Air quality today
Air quality in Kŭlob currently reads AQI 29 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 29
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 5.9
- tree cover
- 14.5%
- trees in this area
- 45.6K
- more trees needed
- 48.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kulob, Tajikistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 17, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kŭlob · AQI 29 (Good)
Kŭlob's tree count comes to 45,553 trees across 12.57 km², 16 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 48,695 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kŭlob today: AQI 29, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
5.9
PM10
9.5
NO₂
6.5
O₃
64.0
SO₂
8.7
CO
314.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kŭlob's daily AQI at 29 on average, from 16 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 78 on Nov 4.
Where Kŭlob stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kŭlob: Critically low
14.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
45,553
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
48,695
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,071 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kŭlob lost?
There was almost no forest around Kŭlob 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.
2018: satellite photo from August 2018 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 124 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 238 ha
- Overall change
- +114 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kŭlob grew from about 124 hectares to 238 hectares, a net gain of about 114 hectares (+92%). New forest grew on about 116 hectares, while 2 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kŭlob right now?
The latest reading for Kŭlob shows an AQI of 29 (Good), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kŭlob today?
At AQI 29 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Kŭlob been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kŭlob's daily AQI at 29 on average, from 16 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 78 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kŭlob lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kŭlob 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 Kŭlob grew from about 124 hectares to 238 hectares, a net gain of about 114 hectares (+92%). New forest grew on about 116 hectares, while 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Kŭlob?
Kŭlob has an estimated 45,553 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 14.5% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kŭlob need?
Kŭlob needs roughly 48,695 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,071 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kŭlob'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 Kulob; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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