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Shenyang Air quality today
Air quality in Shenyang currently reads AQI 153 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 153
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 58.4
- tree cover
- 13.1%
- trees in this area
- 40.4K
- more trees needed
- 83.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shenhe District, Shenyang, Liaoning, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shenyang · AQI 153 (Unhealthy)
Shenyang's tree count comes to 40,414 trees across 12.34 km² of land, 27 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 82,988 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shenyang today: AQI 153, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 23:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Shenyang (沈阳), 1.5 km away · median of 6 stations
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
58.4
PM10
92.4
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, China National Urban air quality real-time publishing platform (全国城市空气质量实时发布平台), U.S. Consulate Shenyang Air Quality Monitor, Liaoning Provincial Environmental Monitoring (辽宁省环境保护厅), Liaoning Provincial Environmental Monitoring (辽宁省环境监测实验中心)
- 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 Shenyang's daily AQI at 108 on average, from 80 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 183 on Nov 10.
Where Shenyang stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shenyang: Critically low
13.1% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.34 km² of land.
Trees in this area
40,414
Target trees
123,402
More trees needed
82,988
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,826 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shenyang lost?
There was very little forest around Shenyang in 2000, about 15 hectares, and about 4 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 June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2001, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
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 | 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 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 Shenyang?
- Towns and roadscleared for good60% · 3 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown37% · 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
- 1,390 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 2,390 ha
- Overall change
- +1,000 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Shenyang grew from about 1,390 hectares to 2,390 hectares, a net gain of about 1,000 hectares (+72%). New forest grew on about 1,010 hectares, while 3 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Shenyang right now?
The latest reading for Shenyang shows an AQI of 153 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 23:00 local time by 6 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Shenyang (沈阳), 1.5 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Shenyang today?
At AQI 153 (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 Shenyang been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shenyang's daily AQI at 108 on average, from 80 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 183 on Nov 10. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shenyang lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Shenyang in 2000, about 15 hectares, and about 4 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 Shenyang grew from about 1,390 hectares to 2,390 hectares, a net gain of about 1,000 hectares (+72%). New forest grew on about 1,010 hectares, while 3 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Shenyang?
Shenyang has an estimated 40,414 trees across the 12.34 km² of land measured — 13.1% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shenyang need?
Shenyang needs roughly 82,988 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,826 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shenyang's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Shenhe District, 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 Shenhe District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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