City report · Sindh, Pakistan
Shahdad Kot Air quality today
Air quality in Shahdad Kot currently reads AQI 306 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 306
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 213.6
- tree cover
- 3.4%
- trees in this area
- 10.7K
- more trees needed
- 131K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shahdādkot, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 29, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shahdad Kot · AQI 306 (Hazardous)
Shahdad Kot's tree count comes to 10,671 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 42 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 130,560 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shahdad Kot today: AQI 306, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Khairpur and Sukkur
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
213.6
PM10
66.8
NO₂
6.4
O₃
64.0
SO₂
7.8
CO
356.0
- 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 Shahdad Kot's daily AQI at 102 on average, from 70 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 10.
Where Shahdad Kot stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shahdad Kot: Critically low
3.4% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
10,671
Target trees
141,231
More trees needed
130,560
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,872 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shahdad Kot lost?
There was almost no forest around Shahdad Kot 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 October 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 Shahdad Kot right now?
The latest reading for Shahdad Kot shows an AQI of 306 (Hazardous), observed Nov 11, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Shahdad Kot today?
At AQI 306 (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 Shahdad Kot been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shahdad Kot's daily AQI at 102 on average, from 70 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 10. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shahdad Kot lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Shahdad Kot 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 Shahdad Kot?
Shahdad Kot has an estimated 10,671 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 3.4% tree cover, 42 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shahdad Kot need?
Shahdad Kot needs roughly 130,560 more trees to close a 42-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,872 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shahdad Kot'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 Shahdādkot; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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