City report · Sindh, Pakistan
Talhar Air quality today
Air quality in Talhar currently reads AQI 138 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 138
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 52.3
- tree cover
- 11.6%
- trees in this area
- 36.0K
- more trees needed
- 72.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Talhar, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Talhar · AQI 138 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Talhar's tree count comes to 36,042 trees across 12.43 km² of land, 23 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 72,705 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Talhar today: AQI 138, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Hyderabad and Mīrpur Khās
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
52.3
PM10
30.7
NO₂
1.1
O₃
138.0
SO₂
4.9
CO
160.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Talhar's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 64 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 97 on Nov 5.
Where Talhar stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Talhar: Critically low
11.6% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.43 km² of land.
Trees in this area
36,042
Target trees
108,747
More trees needed
72,705
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,600 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Talhar lost?
There was almost no forest around Talhar 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 January 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 Talhar
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Tando Bago18.6 km
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- Tree cover
- 15%
- Air quality
- 105
- Badin25.5 km
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- Tree cover
- 9%
- Air quality
- 138
- Tando Muhammad Khan38.6 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 13%
- Air quality
- 124
- Digri42.5 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 102
- Tando Allahyar64.8 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 18%
- Air quality
- 148
- Hyderabad72.0 km
Pakistan
- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 301
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Talhar right now?
The latest reading for Talhar shows an AQI of 138 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Talhar today?
At AQI 138 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Talhar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Talhar's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 64 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 97 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Talhar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Talhar 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 Talhar?
Talhar has an estimated 36,042 trees across the 12.43 km² of land measured — 11.6% tree cover, 23 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Talhar need?
Talhar needs roughly 72,705 more trees to close a 23-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,600 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Talhar'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 Talhar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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