City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Sahiwal Air quality today
Air quality in Sahiwal currently reads AQI 345 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 345
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 245.2
- tree cover
- 13.4%
- trees in this area
- 42.1K
- more trees needed
- 99.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Sahiwal, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 11, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sahiwal · AQI 345 (Hazardous)
Sahiwal's tree count comes to 42,097 trees across 12.57 km², 32 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 99,274 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sahiwal today: AQI 345, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 5 station cities within 145 km, e.g. Sargodha and Jhang
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
245.2
PM10
200.2
NO₂
35.9
O₃
40.0
SO₂
11.2
CO
1015.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sahiwal's daily AQI at 183 on average, from 104 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 275 on Nov 10.
Where Sahiwal stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sahiwal: Critically low
13.4% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
42,097
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
99,274
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,184 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sahiwal lost?
There was almost no forest around Sahiwal 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 June 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Sahiwal
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Jauharabad35.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 250
- Bhawana54.2 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 276
- Chiniot67.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 334
- Jhang Sadr78.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 322
- Pindi Bhattian89.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 487
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Questions about Sahiwal
What is the air quality (AQI) in Sahiwal right now?
The latest reading for Sahiwal shows an AQI of 345 (Hazardous), observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Sahiwal today?
At AQI 345 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Sahiwal been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sahiwal's daily AQI at 183 on average, from 104 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 275 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Sahiwal lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sahiwal 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 Sahiwal?
Sahiwal has an estimated 42,097 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 13.4% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sahiwal need?
Sahiwal needs roughly 99,274 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,184 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sahiwal'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 Sahiwal; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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