City report · Gujarat, India
Rājkot Air quality today
Air quality in Rājkot currently reads AQI 66 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 66
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 17.3
- tree cover
- 14.3%
- trees in this area
- 44.9K
- more trees needed
- 49.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Jagnath Plot, Rajkot, Gujarat, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 28, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Rājkot · AQI 66 (Moderate)
Rājkot's tree count comes to 44,925 trees across 12.57 km², 16 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 49,323 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Rājkot today: AQI 66, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:45 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Mavdi, Rajkot - Nexteng Enviro, 5 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
17.3
PM10
58.4
NO₂
93.5
O₃
22.1
SO₂
22.4
CO
1.0
Data: OpenAQ · N/A, a network OpenAQ doesn't name
- 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 Rājkot's daily AQI at 76 on average, from 69 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 93 on Nov 8.
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 Rājkot: Critically low
14.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
44,925
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
49,323
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,085 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Rājkot lost?
There was almost no forest around Rājkot 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 February 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
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Rājkot right now?
The latest reading for Rājkot shows an AQI of 66 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 20:45 local time by the Mavdi, Rajkot - Nexteng Enviro ground monitoring station, 5 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Rājkot today?
At AQI 66 (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 Rājkot been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Rājkot's daily AQI at 76 on average, from 69 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 93 on Nov 8. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Rājkot'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 Rājkot lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Rājkot 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 Rājkot?
Rājkot has an estimated 44,925 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 14.3% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Rājkot need?
Rājkot needs roughly 49,323 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,085 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Rājkot's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Jagnath Plot, 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 Jagnath Plot; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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