City report · Sindh, Pakistan
Shikarpur Air quality today
Air quality in Shikarpur currently reads AQI 286 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 286
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 199.2
- tree cover
- 8.6%
- trees in this area
- 26.7K
- more trees needed
- 113K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shikarpur, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shikarpur · AQI 286 (Very unhealthy)
Shikarpur's tree count comes to 26,748 trees across 12.44 km² of land, 36 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 113,210 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shikarpur today: AQI 286, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Sukkur and Khairpur
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
199.2
PM10
58.7
NO₂
25.4
O₃
49.0
SO₂
8.2
CO
802.0
- 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 Shikarpur's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 104 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 186 on Nov 10.
Where Shikarpur stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shikarpur: Critically low
8.6% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.44 km² of land.
Trees in this area
26,748
Target trees
139,958
More trees needed
113,210
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,491 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shikarpur lost?
There was almost no forest around Shikarpur 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 November 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 Shikarpur
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Sukkur35.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 266
- Jacobabad41.3 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 486
- Pano Aqil47.8 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 19%
- Air quality
- 226
- Khairpur Mir’s48.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 266
- Larkana60.9 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 235
- Garhi Khairo65.7 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 333
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Shikarpur right now?
The latest reading for Shikarpur shows an AQI of 286 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Shikarpur today?
At AQI 286 (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 Shikarpur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shikarpur's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 104 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 186 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shikarpur lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Shikarpur 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 Shikarpur?
Shikarpur has an estimated 26,748 trees across the 12.44 km² of land measured — 8.6% tree cover, 36 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shikarpur need?
Shikarpur needs roughly 113,210 more trees to close a 36-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,491 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shikarpur'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 Shikarpur; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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