City report · Hebei, China
Shijiazhuang Air quality today
Air quality in Shijiazhuang currently reads AQI 159 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 159
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 67.1
- tree cover
- 11.9%
- trees in this area
- 37.0K
- more trees needed
- 87.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shijiazhuang · AQI 159 (Unhealthy)
Shijiazhuang's tree count comes to 37,048 trees across 12.46 km² of land, 28 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 87,484 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shijiazhuang today: AQI 159, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 22:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Shijiazhuang (石家庄), 3.2 km away · median of 3 stations
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
67.1
PM10
115.6
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Hebei Province Environment Protection Agency (河北省空气质量自动发布系统)
- 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 Shijiazhuang's daily AQI at 118 on average, from 76 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 176 on Nov 5.
Where Shijiazhuang stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shijiazhuang: Critically low
11.9% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.46 km² of land.
Trees in this area
37,048
Target trees
124,532
More trees needed
87,484
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,925 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shijiazhuang lost?
There was almost no forest around Shijiazhuang 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 399 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 805 ha
- Overall change
- +406 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Shijiazhuang grew from about 399 hectares to 805 hectares, a net gain of about 406 hectares (+102%). New forest grew on about 408 hectares, while 2 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 Shijiazhuang right now?
The latest reading for Shijiazhuang shows an AQI of 159 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 22:00 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Shijiazhuang (石家庄), 3.2 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 Shijiazhuang today?
At AQI 159 (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 Shijiazhuang been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shijiazhuang's daily AQI at 118 on average, from 76 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 176 on Nov 5. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shijiazhuang lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Shijiazhuang 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Shijiazhuang grew from about 399 hectares to 805 hectares, a net gain of about 406 hectares (+102%). New forest grew on about 408 hectares, while 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Shijiazhuang?
Shijiazhuang has an estimated 37,048 trees across the 12.46 km² of land measured — 11.9% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shijiazhuang need?
Shijiazhuang needs roughly 87,484 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,925 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shijiazhuang's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Qiaoxi 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 Qiaoxi District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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