City report · Odisha, India
Puri Air quality today
Air quality in Puri currently reads AQI 23 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 23
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.6
- tree cover
- 25.7%
- trees in this area
- 51.3K
- more trees needed
- 8.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Puri, Odisha, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Puri · AQI 23 (Good)
Puri's tree count comes to 51,269 trees across 7.98 km² of land, 4 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 8,578 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Puri today: AQI 23, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 85 km, e.g. Bhubaneswar and Kataka
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.6
PM10
11.7
NO₂
1.7
O₃
76.0
SO₂
2.5
CO
327.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Puri's daily AQI at 140 on average, from 59 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 179 on Nov 6.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Puri: Below target
25.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 7.98 km² of land.
Trees in this area
51,269
Target trees
59,847
More trees needed
8,578
CO₂ if planted / yr
188.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Puri lost?
There was very little forest around Puri in 2000, about 39 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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 February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
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 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 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 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Puri?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good48% · 1 ha
- Wildfirescan grow back4.3% · under 1 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good4.3% · under 1 ha
Also: unknown causes.
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
- 786 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 738 ha
- Overall change
- −48 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Puri shrank from about 786 hectares to 738 hectares, a net loss of about 48 hectares (−6.1%). New forest grew on about 21 hectares, but 68 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 Puri right now?
The latest reading for Puri shows an AQI of 23 (Good), observed Nov 11, 03:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Puri today?
At AQI 23 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Puri been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Puri's daily AQI at 140 on average, from 59 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 179 on Nov 6. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Puri'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 Puri lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Puri in 2000, about 39 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Puri shrank from about 786 hectares to 738 hectares, a net loss of about 48 hectares (−6.1%). New forest grew on about 21 hectares, but 68 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Puri?
Puri has an estimated 51,269 trees across the 7.98 km² of land measured — 25.7% tree cover, 4 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Puri need?
Puri needs roughly 8,578 more trees to close a 4-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 188.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Puri'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 Puri; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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