City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Sambrial Air quality today
Air quality in Sambrial currently reads AQI 214 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 214
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 139.1
- tree cover
- 11.0%
- trees in this area
- 34.6K
- more trees needed
- 107K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Nek Pura Sambrial, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 13, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sambrial · AQI 214 (Very unhealthy)
Sambrial's tree count comes to 34,558 trees across 12.57 km², 34 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 106,814 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sambrial today: AQI 214, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · AC Sambrial, 1.5 km away
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
139.1
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, The Urban Unit
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sambrial's daily AQI at 157 on average, from 123 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 229 on Nov 10.
Where Sambrial stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sambrial: Critically low
11.0% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
34,558
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
106,814
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,350 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sambrial lost?
There was almost no forest around Sambrial 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
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Jalalpur Jattan22.8 km
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- Air quality
- 217
- Gujrat28.2 km
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- Air quality
- 219
- Pasrur37.7 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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- Gujranwala39.1 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Sambrial right now?
The latest reading for Sambrial shows an AQI of 214 (Very unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by the AC Sambrial ground monitoring station, 1.5 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Sambrial today?
At AQI 214 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Sambrial been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sambrial's daily AQI at 157 on average, from 123 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 229 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Sambrial lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sambrial 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 Sambrial?
Sambrial has an estimated 34,558 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 11.0% tree cover, 34 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sambrial need?
Sambrial needs roughly 106,814 more trees to close a 34-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,350 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sambrial's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Nek Pura Sambrial, 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 Nek Pura Sambrial; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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