City report · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Mardan Air quality today
Air quality in Mardan currently reads AQI 184 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 184
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 123.7
- tree cover
- 8.5%
- trees in this area
- 26.7K
- more trees needed
- 99.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mardan, 23200, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mardan · AQI 184 (Unhealthy)
Mardan's tree count comes to 26,704 trees across 12.57 km², 32 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 98,960 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mardan today: AQI 184, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Chārsadda and Shabqadar
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
123.7
PM10
46.0
NO₂
31.7
O₃
113.0
SO₂
10.5
CO
1322.0
- 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 Mardan's daily AQI at 126 on average, from 105 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 189 on Nov 9.
Where Mardan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mardan: Critically low
8.5% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
26,704
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
98,960
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,177 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mardan lost?
There was almost no forest around Mardan 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 September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 148 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 259 ha
- Overall change
- +111 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Mardan grew from about 148 hectares to 259 hectares, a net gain of about 111 hectares (+75%). New forest grew on about 112 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Mardan
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Charsadda29.0 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 13%
- Air quality
- 346
- Tordher31.7 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 171
- Shabqadar45.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 15%
- Air quality
- 294
- Peshawar48.2 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 268
- Attock City55.8 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 155
- Mingora70.8 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 63
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Mardan right now?
The latest reading for Mardan shows an AQI of 184 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Mardan today?
At AQI 184 (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 Mardan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mardan's daily AQI at 126 on average, from 105 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 189 on Nov 9. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mardan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mardan 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 Mardan grew from about 148 hectares to 259 hectares, a net gain of about 111 hectares (+75%). New forest grew on about 112 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Mardan?
Mardan has an estimated 26,704 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 8.5% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mardan need?
Mardan needs roughly 98,960 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,177 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mardan'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 Mardan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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