India · Gujarat · 33 cities
Air quality in Gujarat today The AQI right now, city by city
Right now, Pālanpur has the cleanest air of the 33 cities we track in Gujarat (AQI 47, Good), and Jetpur the worst (AQI 155, Unhealthy). Gandhinagar has the most tree cover, at 39.5% — #79 of 470 cities measured in India.
Every city is measured the same way, over the same 2 km around its center: the air quality right now, from ground stations where there are any, and its tree cover.
AQI 92
Average right now
Moderate
- cities tracked
- 33
- average tree cover
- 18.9%
- India: 27.3%
- worst air now: Jetpur
- 155
- cleanest air now: Pālanpur
- 47
Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous, and it reads differently from India's AQI (CPCB). Measured by Airleaf, refreshed hourly.
Gujarat · average AQI 92
Air quality today across Gujarat, city by city
| Ahmedabad | 119Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 12.4% | 68.7K | #417 of 470 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surat | 116Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 10.3% | 75.3K | #441 of 470 |
| Vadodara | 122Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 16.0% | 59.4K | #364 of 470 |
| Rājkot | 66Moderate | 14.3% | 49.3K | #389 of 470 |
| Bhavnagar | 151Unhealthy | 16.4% | 74.1K | #359 of 470 |
| Jamnagar | 118Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 17.0% | 54.6K | #352 of 470 |
| Bilimora | 93Moderate | 38.9% | — | #83 of 470 |
| Jūnāgadh | 94Moderate | 30.2% | — | #139 of 470 |
| Gandhinagar | 87Moderate | 39.5% | — | #79 of 470 |
| Gāndhīdhām | 64Moderate | 17.2% | 40.2K | #350 of 470 |
| Nadiād | 95Moderate | 21.3% | 27.3K | #286 of 470 |
| Morvi | 79Moderate | 15.2% | 45.8K | #374 of 470 |
| Anand | 117Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 22.1% | 40.4K | #273 of 470 |
| Mahesāna | 84Moderate | 16.2% | 43.4K | #361 of 470 |
| Surendranagar | 60Moderate | 10.5% | 61.1K | #437 of 470 |
| Verāval | 118Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 9.7% | 50.2K | #445 of 470 |
| Navsari | 95Moderate | 18.4% | 36.1K | #328 of 470 |
| Bharūch | 108Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 13.9% | 60.7K | #399 of 470 |
| Vapi | 81Moderate | 25.4% | 14.5K | #206 of 470 |
| Porbandar | 68Moderate | 21.0% | 22.4K | #290 of 470 |
| Bhuj | 73Moderate | 13.7% | 50.2K | #401 of 470 |
| Godhra | 72Moderate | 21.1% | 27.6K | #288 of 470 |
| Pālanpur | 47Good | 14.1% | 50.0K | #393 of 470 |
| Valsād | 97Moderate | 36.1% | — | #102 of 470 |
| Kalol | 90Moderate | 17.2% | 40.2K | #349 of 470 |
| Pātan | 49Good | 15.7% | 44.9K | #366 of 470 |
| Botad | 91Moderate | 12.2% | 55.9K | #419 of 470 |
| Vejalpur | 65Moderate | 33.0% | — | #119 of 470 |
| Dohad | 81Moderate | 17.7% | 37.6K | #343 of 470 |
| Jetpur | 155Unhealthy | 13.9% | 82.0K | #397 of 470 |
| Amreli | 117Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 15.3% | 61.8K | #372 of 470 |
| Gondal | 101Unhealthy for sensitive groups | 13.9% | 66.3K | #396 of 470 |
| Deesa | 52Moderate | 12.3% | 55.6K | #418 of 470 |
Air quality is the US AQI from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where available, otherwise the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, refreshed hourly. Tree cover is measured within 2 km of each city center from Sentinel-2 imagery; the rank compares every city measured in India.
Is this 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.
India's AQI (CPCB) and the AQI, explainedDeforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Gujarat lost?
Since 2001, Gujarat has lost about 104 hectares of forest (about 150 football pitches): under 1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (52%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 104 haabout 150 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- under 1%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 54 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Hectares of forest lost each year
Show the figures as a table
| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 ha | 6 ha | 10 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 3 ha |
| 2003 | 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | 4 ha | 4 ha |
| 2005 | 1 ha | 3 ha | 4 ha |
| 2006 | 1 ha | 3 ha | 4 ha |
| 2007 | 6 ha | 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2008 | 13 ha | 4 ha | 18 ha |
| 2009 | 5 ha | 4 ha | 9 ha |
| 2010 | 2 ha | 2 ha | 4 ha |
| 2011 | 4 ha | 5 ha | 9 ha |
| 2012 | 6 ha | 8 ha | 14 ha |
| 2013 | 1 ha | 4 ha | 5 ha |
| 2014 | 3 ha | 3 ha | 6 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 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
The worst year was 2008, when about 18 hectares of forest were lost.
What is causing deforestation in Gujarat?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good50% · 52 ha
- Loggingcan grow back3.8% · 4 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good1.2% · 1 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, wildfires, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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. How it's measured
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