City report · Uttar Pradesh, India
Pīlibhīt Air quality today
Air quality in Pīlibhīt currently reads AQI 140 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 140
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 54.4
- tree cover
- 27.6%
- trees in this area
- 85.1K
- more trees needed
- 22.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Desh Nager, Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh 262001, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Nov 1, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Pīlibhīt · AQI 140 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Pīlibhīt's tree count comes to 85,061 trees across 12.33 km² of land, 7 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 22,806 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Pīlibhīt today: AQI 140, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:30 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. Haziyapur and Dhangadhi
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
54.4
PM10
49.5
NO₂
27.4
O₃
13.0
SO₂
7.6
CO
553.0
- 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 Pīlibhīt's daily AQI at 132 on average, from 78 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 176 on Nov 5.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
Where Pīlibhīt stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Pīlibhīt: Below target
27.6% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.33 km² of land.
Trees in this area
85,061
Target trees
107,867
More trees needed
22,806
CO₂ if planted / yr
501.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Pīlibhīt lost?
Almost no forest has been lost around Pīlibhīt since 2001: less than 1 hectare of the 176 hectares there in 2000.
2017: satellite photo from April 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,240 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,400 ha
- Overall change
- +159 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Pīlibhīt grew from about 1,240 hectares to 1,400 hectares, a net gain of about 159 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 176 hectares, while 16 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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- Tree cover
- 22%
- Air quality
- 66
- Haldwani71.0 km
India
- Tree cover
- 23%
- Air quality
- 51
- Dhangaḍhi̇̄77.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 33%
- Air quality
- 129
- Rāmpur78.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 24%
- Air quality
- 98
- Shāhjānpur84.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 15%
- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Pīlibhīt right now?
The latest reading for Pīlibhīt shows an AQI of 140 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Pīlibhīt today?
At AQI 140 (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 Pīlibhīt been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Pīlibhīt's daily AQI at 132 on average, from 78 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 176 on Nov 5. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Pīlibhīt'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 Pīlibhīt lost since 2001?
Almost no forest has been lost around Pīlibhīt since 2001: less than 1 hectare of the 176 hectares there in 2000. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Pīlibhīt grew from about 1,240 hectares to 1,400 hectares, a net gain of about 159 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 176 hectares, while 16 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Pīlibhīt?
Pīlibhīt has an estimated 85,061 trees across the 12.33 km² of land measured — 27.6% tree cover, 7 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Pīlibhīt need?
Pīlibhīt needs roughly 22,806 more trees to close a 7-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 501.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Pīlibhīt'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 Desh Nager; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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