City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Mianwali Air quality today
Air quality in Mianwali currently reads AQI 185 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 185
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 91.1
- tree cover
- 9.1%
- trees in this area
- 26.6K
- more trees needed
- 90.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mohalla Miana Mianwali, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mianwali · AQI 185 (Unhealthy)
Mianwali's tree count comes to 26,559 trees across 11.68 km² of land, 31 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 90,183 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mianwali today: AQI 185, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 6 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Sargodha and Peshawar
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
91.1
PM10
44.2
NO₂
3.5
O₃
112.0
SO₂
8.2
CO
336.0
- 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 Mianwali's daily AQI at 158 on average, from 91 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 266 on Nov 10.
Where Mianwali stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mianwali: Critically low
9.1% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.68 km² of land.
Trees in this area
26,559
Target trees
116,742
More trees needed
90,183
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,984 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mianwali lost?
There was almost no forest around Mianwali 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.
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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- Air quality
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- Sahiwal101.0 km
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- Air quality
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- Dera Ismail Khan101.8 km
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- Air quality
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- Kohat111.9 km
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- Air quality
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- Bhakkar114.4 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Mianwali right now?
The latest reading for Mianwali shows an AQI of 185 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 185 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 Mianwali today?
At AQI 185 (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 Mianwali been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mianwali's daily AQI at 158 on average, from 91 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 266 on Nov 10. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mianwali lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mianwali 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.
What is the tree count in Mianwali?
Mianwali has an estimated 26,559 trees across the 11.68 km² of land measured — 9.1% tree cover, 31 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mianwali need?
Mianwali needs roughly 90,183 more trees to close a 31-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,984 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mianwali'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 Mohalla Miana Mianwali; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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