City report · Punjab, India
Māler Kotla Air quality today
Air quality in Māler Kotla currently reads AQI 202 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 202
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 125.4
- tree cover
- 13.9%
- trees in this area
- 43.7K
- more trees needed
- 97.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Tapa Mohalla, Malerkotla, Punjab 148023, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 8, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Māler Kotla · AQI 202 (Very unhealthy)
Māler Kotla's tree count comes to 43,668 trees across 12.57 km², 31 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 97,704 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Māler Kotla today: AQI 202, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 17 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 17 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Khanna and Ludhiana
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
125.4
PM10
161.6
NO₂
24.9
O₃
51.0
SO₂
10.3
CO
692.0
- 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 Māler Kotla's daily AQI at 187 on average, from 168 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 264 on Nov 10.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Māler Kotla stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Māler Kotla: Critically low
13.9% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
43,668
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
97,704
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,149 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Māler Kotla lost?
There was very little forest around Māler Kotla in 2000, about 23 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 June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
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 | under 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 |
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. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Māler Kotla right now?
The latest reading for Māler Kotla shows an AQI of 202 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 17 ground-station cities within 185 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 Māler Kotla today?
At AQI 202 (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 Māler Kotla been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Māler Kotla's daily AQI at 187 on average, from 168 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 264 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Māler Kotla'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 Māler Kotla lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Māler Kotla in 2000, about 23 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.
What is the tree count in Māler Kotla?
Māler Kotla has an estimated 43,668 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 13.9% tree cover, 31 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Māler Kotla need?
Māler Kotla needs roughly 97,704 more trees to close a 31-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,149 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Māler Kotla'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 Tapa Mohalla; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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