City report · Shandong, China
Laiwu Air quality today
Air quality in Laiwu currently reads AQI 134 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 134
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 53.5
- tree cover
- 10.2%
- trees in this area
- 31.8K
- more trees needed
- 77.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Laiwu District, Jinan, Shandong, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 15, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Laiwu · AQI 134 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Laiwu's tree count comes to 31,820 trees across 12.48 km² of land, 25 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 77,366 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Laiwu today: AQI 134, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 06:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 9 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 9 station cities within 85 km, e.g. Taian and Zibo
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
53.5
PM10
80.1
NO₂
50.3
O₃
4.0
SO₂
18.3
CO
695.0
- 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 Laiwu's daily AQI at 117 on average, from 59 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 188 on Nov 5.
Where Laiwu stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Laiwu: Critically low
10.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.48 km² of land.
Trees in this area
31,820
Target trees
109,186
More trees needed
77,366
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,702 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Laiwu lost?
There was almost no forest around Laiwu 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 June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,150 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 2,270 ha
- Overall change
- +1,120 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Laiwu grew from about 1,150 hectares to 2,270 hectares, a net gain of about 1,120 hectares (+97%). New forest grew on about 1,120 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Laiwu right now?
The latest reading for Laiwu shows an AQI of 134 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 06:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 9 ground-station cities within 85 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 Laiwu today?
At AQI 134 (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 Laiwu been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Laiwu's daily AQI at 117 on average, from 59 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 188 on Nov 5. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Laiwu lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Laiwu 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 Laiwu grew from about 1,150 hectares to 2,270 hectares, a net gain of about 1,120 hectares (+97%). New forest grew on about 1,120 hectares, while 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Laiwu?
Laiwu has an estimated 31,820 trees across the 12.48 km² of land measured — 10.2% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Laiwu need?
Laiwu needs roughly 77,366 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,702 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Laiwu'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 Laiwu District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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