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Air quality now: AQI108Unhealthy for sensitive groups, Pānihāti

City report · West Bengal, India

Pānihāti Air quality today

Air quality in Pānihāti currently reads AQI 108 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

AQI 108

Air quality right now

Unhealthy for sensitive groups

Main pollutant: PM2.5
PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
38.3
tree cover
39.7%
trees in this area
104K
more trees needed
0

Measured across a 2 km radius around Angles Nagar Colony, Kamarhati, Agarpara, Panihati, West Bengal, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.

Pānihāti · AQI 108 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)

Dark green marks tree cover detected inside the study radius.Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search, captured Oct 25, 2026

Pānihāti's tree count comes to 103,519 trees across 10.43 km² of land, already at or above the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.

Air quality detail

Air quality in Pānihāti today: AQI 108, Unhealthy for sensitive groups

Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.

Ground station · Belur Math, Howrah - WBPCB, 7.2 km away · median of 4 stations

Health signal

Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

PM2.5

38.3

PM10

80.4

NO₂

55.2

O₃

22.7

SO₂

16.0

CO

0.7

Data: OpenAQ · CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India (GODL-India)

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 Pānihāti's daily AQI at 178 on average, from 154 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 241 on Nov 8.

Last 7 days · model estimateavg 178 · peak 241
Nov 4: AQI 166 (peak 189)Nov 5: AQI 182 (peak 198)Nov 6: AQI 194 (peak 220)Nov 7: AQI 205 (peak 233)Nov 8: AQI 187 (peak 241)Nov 9: AQI 154 (peak 208)Nov 10: AQI 156 (peak 211)
Nov 4Nov 10

This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide

Where Pānihāti stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest

Tree cover detail

Tree cover in Pānihāti: Healthy tree cover

39.7% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.43 km² of land.

Target reached

Trees in this area

103,519

Target trees

103,519

More trees needed

0

CO₂ if planted / yr

0 kg

Deforestation · 2001–2025

How much forest has Pānihāti lost?

Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Pānihāti has lost about 2 hectares of forest: under 1% of the forest it had in 2000. The biggest cause was towns and roads (5.9%). Almost none of it was deforestation, meaning forest cleared for good.

Satellite image of the area around Pānihāti, February 2017

2017: satellite photo from February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.

Forest lost since 2001
2 ha
Share of its forest
under 1%of what there was in 2000
Cleared for good
under 1 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest lost each year around Pānihāti, 2001–2025

Hectares of forest lost each year

Forest lost each year around Pānihāti, 2001–2025. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each year.0.4

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Forest lost each year around Pānihāti, 2001–2025
YearCleared for goodCan grow backTotal
2001under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2002under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2003under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2004under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2005under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2006under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2007under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2008under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2009under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
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2011under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2012under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
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2014under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2015under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2016under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2017under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2018under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2019under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2020under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2021under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2022under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2023under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2024under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha
2025under 1 haunder 1 haunder 1 ha

What is causing deforestation around Pānihāti?

  • Towns and roadscleared for good5.9% · under 1 ha
  • Unknown causescause unknown88% · 2 ha

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
7,560 ha
Forest in 2020
7,560 ha
Overall change
+under 1 hamore forest than in 2000

Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Pānihāti stayed about the same size, at about 7,560 hectares: new forest grew on about 151 hectares, and about 150 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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Questions about Pānihāti

What is the air quality (AQI) in Pānihāti right now?

The latest reading for Pānihāti shows an AQI of 108 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by 4 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Belur Math, Howrah - WBPCB, 7.2 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.

Is it safe to exercise outside in Pānihāti today?

At AQI 108 (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 Pānihāti been like this week?

Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Pānihāti's daily AQI at 178 on average, from 154 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 241 on Nov 8. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.

Is Pānihāti's AQI the same as India's AQI (CPCB)?

No. Airleaf shows the US EPA Air Quality Index (AQI), the scale used by IQAir and most air-quality apps. India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) publishes the National Air Quality Index on its own scale: 0–50 good, 51–100 satisfactory, 101–200 moderate, 201–300 poor, 301–400 very poor and 401–500 severe. The two scales don't line up. At moderate fine-particle levels the US scale reads higher: 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5 is 149 on the US AQI but about 92, "satisfactory", on India's. In heavy smog India's reads higher: 100 µg/m³ is 182 on the US AQI and about 232, "poor", on India's. CPCB also averages particles over 24 hours, so its figure moves more slowly than an hourly reading.

How much forest has the area around Pānihāti lost since 2001?

Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Pānihāti has lost about 2 hectares of forest: under 1% of the forest it had in 2000. The biggest cause was towns and roads (5.9%). Almost none of it was deforestation, meaning forest cleared for good. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Pānihāti stayed about the same size, at about 7,560 hectares: new forest grew on about 151 hectares, and about 150 hectares were lost.

What is the tree count in Pānihāti?

Pānihāti has an estimated 103,519 trees across the 10.43 km² of land measured — 39.7% tree cover, already past the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.

How many more trees does Pānihāti need?

Pānihāti has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.

How are Pānihāti's air quality and tree cover measured?

Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Angles Nagar Colony, 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 Angles Nagar Colony; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.

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