City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Pakpattan Air quality today
Air quality in Pakpattan currently reads AQI 297 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 297
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 251.5
- tree cover
- 12.2%
- trees in this area
- 38.3K
- more trees needed
- 103K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Pākpattan, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 11, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Pakpattan · AQI 297 (Very unhealthy)
Pakpattan's tree count comes to 38,327 trees across 12.57 km², 33 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 103,044 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Pakpattan today: AQI 297, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 11 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 11 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Ārifwāla and Okara
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
251.5
PM10
191.9
NO₂
26.6
O₃
99.0
SO₂
14.3
CO
750.0
- 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 Pakpattan's daily AQI at 223 on average, from 180 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 290 on Nov 4.
Where Pakpattan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Pakpattan: Critically low
12.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
38,327
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
103,044
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,267 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Pakpattan lost?
There was almost no forest around Pakpattan 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 June 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Pakpattan
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Haveli Lakha31.6 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 344
- Arifwala31.6 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 722
- Bahawalnagar40.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 547
- Okara52.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 372
- Renala Khurd62.8 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 22%
- Air quality
- 372
- Sri Ganganagar66.3 km
India
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 516
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Pakpattan right now?
The latest reading for Pakpattan shows an AQI of 297 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 11 ground-station cities within 125 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 Pakpattan today?
At AQI 297 (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 Pakpattan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Pakpattan's daily AQI at 223 on average, from 180 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 290 on Nov 4. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Pakpattan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Pakpattan 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 Pakpattan?
Pakpattan has an estimated 38,327 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 12.2% tree cover, 33 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Pakpattan need?
Pakpattan needs roughly 103,044 more trees to close a 33-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,267 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Pakpattan'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 Pākpattan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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