City report · Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Skardu Air quality today
Air quality in Skardu currently reads AQI 44 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 44
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 8.4
- tree cover
- 22.1%
- trees in this area
- 65.4K
- more trees needed
- 23.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 8, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Skardu · AQI 44 (Good)
Skardu's tree count comes to 65,402 trees across 11.84 km² of land, 8 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 23,379 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Skardu today: AQI 44, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 23:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Srinagar and Srinagar
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
8.4
PM10
19.0
NO₂
9.2
O₃
104.0
SO₂
2.1
CO
551.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Skardu's daily AQI at 55 on average, from 41 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 94 on Nov 9.
Where Skardu stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Skardu: Below target
22.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.84 km² of land.
Trees in this area
65,402
Target trees
88,781
More trees needed
23,379
CO₂ if planted / yr
514.3 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Skardu lost?
There was almost no forest around Skardu 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 July 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 Skardu right now?
The latest reading for Skardu shows an AQI of 44 (Good), observed Nov 10, 23:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Skardu today?
At AQI 44 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Skardu been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Skardu's daily AQI at 55 on average, from 41 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 94 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Skardu lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Skardu 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 Skardu?
Skardu has an estimated 65,402 trees across the 11.84 km² of land measured — 22.1% tree cover, 8 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Skardu need?
Skardu needs roughly 23,379 more trees to close a 8-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 514.3 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Skardu'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 Skardu; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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