City report · Shandong, China
Qingzhou Air quality today
Air quality in Qingzhou currently reads AQI 80 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 80
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 24.7
- tree cover
- 12.7%
- trees in this area
- 39.8K
- more trees needed
- 54.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Qingzhou, Weifang, Shandong, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Qingzhou · AQI 80 (Moderate)
Qingzhou's tree count comes to 39,779 trees across 12.53 km² of land, 17 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 54,187 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Qingzhou today: AQI 80, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 22:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Qingzhou Monitoring Station, Qingzhou City (青州市青州监测站), 2 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
24.7
PM10
32.4
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Environmental Protection Department of Shandong Province (山东省环境保护厅)
- 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 Qingzhou's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 56 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 7.
Where Qingzhou stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Qingzhou: Critically low
12.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
39,779
Target trees
93,966
More trees needed
54,187
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,192 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Qingzhou lost?
There was very little forest around Qingzhou in 2000, about 54 hectares, and about 3 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 June 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 Qingzhou?
- Towns and roadscleared for good39% · 1 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good3.6% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown57% · 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
- 2,050 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 3,170 ha
- Overall change
- +1,120 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Qingzhou grew from about 2,050 hectares to 3,170 hectares, a net gain of about 1,120 hectares (+55%). New forest grew on about 1,120 hectares, while 2 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 Qingzhou right now?
The latest reading for Qingzhou shows an AQI of 80 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 22:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Qingzhou Monitoring Station, Qingzhou City (青州市青州监测站), 2 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Qingzhou today?
At AQI 80 (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 Qingzhou been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Qingzhou's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 56 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 7. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Qingzhou lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Qingzhou in 2000, about 54 hectares, and about 3 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 Qingzhou grew from about 2,050 hectares to 3,170 hectares, a net gain of about 1,120 hectares (+55%). New forest grew on about 1,120 hectares, while 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Qingzhou?
Qingzhou has an estimated 39,779 trees across the 12.53 km² of land measured — 12.7% tree cover, 17 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Qingzhou need?
Qingzhou needs roughly 54,187 more trees to close a 17-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,192 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Qingzhou's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Qingzhou, 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 Qingzhou; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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