City report · Sindh, Pakistan
Sukkur Air quality today
Air quality in Sukkur currently reads AQI 266 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 266
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 191.0
- tree cover
- 7.8%
- trees in this area
- 23.2K
- more trees needed
- 111K
Measured across a 2 km radius around New Pind, Sukkur, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sukkur · AQI 266 (Very unhealthy)
Sukkur's tree count comes to 23,206 trees across 11.9 km² of land, 37 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 110,673 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sukkur today: AQI 266, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · BBUSTECH - Air Quality Monitoring Station, 21.7 km away
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
191.0
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · Hawanama, Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی)
- 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 Sukkur's daily AQI at 125 on average, from 105 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 173 on Nov 10.
Where Sukkur stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sukkur: Critically low
7.8% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.9 km² of land.
Trees in this area
23,206
Target trees
133,879
More trees needed
110,673
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,435 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sukkur lost?
There was almost no forest around Sukkur 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 October 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 392 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 584 ha
- Overall change
- +192 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Sukkur grew from about 392 hectares to 584 hectares, a net gain of about 192 hectares (+49%). New forest grew on about 193 hectares, while 1 hectare 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 Sukkur right now?
The latest reading for Sukkur shows an AQI of 266 (Very unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by the BBUSTECH - Air Quality Monitoring Station ground monitoring station, 21.7 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Sukkur today?
At AQI 266 (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 Sukkur been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sukkur's daily AQI at 125 on average, from 105 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 173 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Sukkur lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sukkur 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 Sukkur grew from about 392 hectares to 584 hectares, a net gain of about 192 hectares (+49%). New forest grew on about 193 hectares, while 1 hectare were lost.
What is the tree count in Sukkur?
Sukkur has an estimated 23,206 trees across the 11.9 km² of land measured — 7.8% tree cover, 37 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sukkur need?
Sukkur needs roughly 110,673 more trees to close a 37-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,435 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sukkur's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near New Pind, 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 New Pind; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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