City report · Ningxia, China
Shizuishan Air quality today
Air quality in Shizuishan currently reads AQI 155 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 155
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 62.8
- tree cover
- 10.4%
- trees in this area
- 16.0K
- more trees needed
- 45.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Dawukou District, Shizuishan, Ningxia, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shizuishan · AQI 155 (Unhealthy)
Shizuishan's tree count comes to 15,977 trees across 6.15 km² of land, 30 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 45,473 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shizuishan today: AQI 155, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Shizuishan and Yinchuan
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
62.8
PM10
56.5
NO₂
56.3
O₃
4.0
SO₂
39.7
CO
977.0
- 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 Shizuishan's daily AQI at 84 on average, from 76 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 123 on Nov 5.
Where Shizuishan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shizuishan: Critically low
10.4% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 6.15 km² of land.
Trees in this area
15,977
Target trees
61,450
More trees needed
45,473
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,000 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shizuishan lost?
There was almost no forest around Shizuishan 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 August 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 Shizuishan right now?
The latest reading for Shizuishan shows an AQI of 155 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Shizuishan today?
At AQI 155 (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 Shizuishan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shizuishan's daily AQI at 84 on average, from 76 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 123 on Nov 5. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shizuishan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Shizuishan 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 Shizuishan?
Shizuishan has an estimated 15,977 trees across the 6.15 km² of land measured — 10.4% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shizuishan need?
Shizuishan needs roughly 45,473 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,000 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shizuishan'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 Dawukou District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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