City report · Sindh, Pakistan
Larkana Air quality today
Air quality in Larkana currently reads AQI 235 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 235
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 136.8
- tree cover
- 7.6%
- trees in this area
- 23.8K
- more trees needed
- 117K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Larkana, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Larkana · AQI 235 (Very unhealthy)
Larkana's tree count comes to 23,804 trees across 12.53 km² of land, 37 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 117,143 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Larkana today: AQI 235, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 5 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Khairpur and Sukkur
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
136.8
PM10
60.8
NO₂
1.6
O₃
126.0
SO₂
8.3
CO
294.0
- 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 Larkana's daily AQI at 124 on average, from 97 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 175 on Nov 4.
Where Larkana stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Larkana: Critically low
7.6% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
23,804
Target trees
140,947
More trees needed
117,143
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,577 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Larkana lost?
There was almost no forest around Larkana 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 November 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 221 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 283 ha
- Overall change
- +62 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Larkana grew from about 221 hectares to 283 hectares, a net gain of about 62 hectares (+28%). New forest grew on about 63 hectares, while under 1 hectare was 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Larkana right now?
The latest reading for Larkana shows an AQI of 235 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 245 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 Larkana today?
At AQI 235 (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 Larkana been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Larkana's daily AQI at 124 on average, from 97 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 175 on Nov 4. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Larkana lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Larkana 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 Larkana grew from about 221 hectares to 283 hectares, a net gain of about 62 hectares (+28%). New forest grew on about 63 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Larkana?
Larkana has an estimated 23,804 trees across the 12.53 km² of land measured — 7.6% tree cover, 37 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Larkana need?
Larkana needs roughly 117,143 more trees to close a 37-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,577 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Larkana'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 Larkana; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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