City report · Inner Mongolia, China
Ordos Air quality today
Air quality in Ordos currently reads AQI 93 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 93
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 31.9
- tree cover
- 16.2%
- trees in this area
- 50.9K
- more trees needed
- 43.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kangbashi District, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ordos · AQI 93 (Moderate)
Ordos's tree count comes to 50,894 trees across 12.57 km², 14 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 43,354 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ordos today: AQI 93, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 23:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Eerduosi (鄂尔多斯), 0 m away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
31.9
PM10
66.3
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ordos's daily AQI at 56 on average, from 32 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 135 on Nov 5.
Where Ordos stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ordos: Critically low
16.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
50,894
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
43,354
CO₂ if planted / yr
953.8 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ordos lost?
There was almost no forest around Ordos 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 July 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Ordos right now?
The latest reading for Ordos shows an AQI of 93 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 23:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Eerduosi (鄂尔多斯), 0 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ordos today?
At AQI 93 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Ordos been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ordos's daily AQI at 56 on average, from 32 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 135 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ordos lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ordos 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 Ordos?
Ordos has an estimated 50,894 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 16.2% tree cover, 14 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ordos need?
Ordos needs roughly 43,354 more trees to close a 14-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 953.8 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ordos's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Kangbashi 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 Kangbashi District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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