City report · Sichuan, China
Nanchong Air quality today
Air quality in Nanchong currently reads AQI 109 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 109
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 38.7
- tree cover
- 19.2%
- trees in this area
- 53.0K
- more trees needed
- 43.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shunqing District, Nanchong, Sichuan, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 2, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Nanchong · AQI 109 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Nanchong's tree count comes to 52,960 trees across 11.04 km² of land, 16 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 43,581 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Nanchong today: AQI 109, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 22:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · City Committee, Nanchong (南充南充市委), 1 km away · median of 3 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
38.7
PM10
69.1
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Sichuan Province Environmental Protection Agency (四川省环保重点城市环境空气质量实时监测结果)
- 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 Nanchong's daily AQI at 93 on average, from 61 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 167 on Nov 10.
Where Nanchong stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Nanchong: Critically low
19.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.04 km² of land.
Trees in this area
52,960
Target trees
96,541
More trees needed
43,581
CO₂ if planted / yr
958.8 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Nanchong lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Nanchong has lost about 69 hectares of forest (about 97 football pitches): 5.5% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (98%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 69 haabout 97 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 5.5%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 68 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2023, when about 11 hectares of forest were lost.
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 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 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 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2010 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2011 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2012 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2013 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2019 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2020 | 6 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2021 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2022 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2023 | 11 ha | under 1 ha | 11 ha |
| 2024 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2025 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Nanchong?
- Towns and roadscleared for good95% · 66 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good2.7% · 2 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown2.2% · 2 ha
Also: logging.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 14,000 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 14,000 ha
- Overall change
- +66 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Nanchong stayed about the same size, at about 14,000 hectares: new forest grew on about 371 hectares, and about 306 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 Nanchong right now?
The latest reading for Nanchong shows an AQI of 109 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 22:00 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is City Committee, Nanchong (南充南充市委), 1 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Nanchong today?
At AQI 109 (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 Nanchong been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Nanchong's daily AQI at 93 on average, from 61 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 167 on Nov 10. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Nanchong lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Nanchong has lost about 69 hectares of forest (about 97 football pitches): 5.5% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (98%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Nanchong stayed about the same size, at about 14,000 hectares: new forest grew on about 371 hectares, and about 306 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Nanchong?
Nanchong has an estimated 52,960 trees across the 11.04 km² of land measured — 19.2% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Nanchong need?
Nanchong needs roughly 43,581 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 958.8 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Nanchong's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Shunqing District, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Shunqing District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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