City report · Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
Rajshahi Air quality today
Air quality in Rajshahi currently reads AQI 173 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 173
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 89.1
- tree cover
- 39.8%
- trees in this area
- 113K
- more trees needed
- 565
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kadirganj, Rajshahi, Bangladesh (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Nov 6, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Rajshahi · AQI 173 (Unhealthy)
Rajshahi's tree count comes to 112,532 trees across 11.31 km² of land, 0 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 565 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Rajshahi today: AQI 173, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 22 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 22 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Kalyani and Durgapur
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
89.1
PM10
164.4
NO₂
67.8
O₃
23.0
SO₂
11.0
CO
776.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Rajshahi's daily AQI at 176 on average, from 150 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 231 on Nov 11.
Where Rajshahi stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Rajshahi: Below target
39.8% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.31 km² of land.
Trees in this area
112,532
Target trees
113,097
More trees needed
565
CO₂ if planted / yr
12.4 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Rajshahi lost?
There was very little forest around Rajshahi in 2000, about 17 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 Rajshahi?
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back6.7% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown100% · 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
- 3,930 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 4,500 ha
- Overall change
- +575 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Rajshahi grew from about 3,930 hectares to 4,500 hectares, a net gain of about 575 hectares (+15%). New forest grew on about 581 hectares, while 6 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Rajshahi right now?
The latest reading for Rajshahi shows an AQI of 173 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 22 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Rajshahi today?
At AQI 173 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Rajshahi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Rajshahi's daily AQI at 176 on average, from 150 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 231 on Nov 11. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Rajshahi lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Rajshahi in 2000, about 17 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 Rajshahi grew from about 3,930 hectares to 4,500 hectares, a net gain of about 575 hectares (+15%). New forest grew on about 581 hectares, while 6 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Rajshahi?
Rajshahi has an estimated 112,532 trees across the 11.31 km² of land measured — 39.8% tree cover, 0 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Rajshahi need?
Rajshahi needs roughly 565 more trees to close a 0-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 12.4 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Rajshahi'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 Kadirganj; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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