City report · Jilin, China
Taonan Air quality today
Air quality in Taonan currently reads AQI 145 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 145
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 54.4
- tree cover
- 5.2%
- trees in this area
- 16.3K
- more trees needed
- 93.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Taonan, Baicheng, Jilin, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Taonan · AQI 145 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Taonan's tree count comes to 16,336 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 93,619 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Taonan today: AQI 145, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 6 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Baicheng and Songyuan
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
54.4
PM10
22.4
NO₂
13.3
O₃
28.0
SO₂
3.9
CO
290.0
- 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 Taonan's daily AQI at 57 on average, from 43 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 89 on Nov 5.
Where Taonan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Taonan: Critically low
5.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
16,336
Target trees
109,955
More trees needed
93,619
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,060 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Taonan lost?
There was almost no forest around Taonan 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.
2018: satellite photo from June 2018 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 Taonan right now?
The latest reading for Taonan shows an AQI of 145 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 225 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 Taonan today?
At AQI 145 (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 Taonan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Taonan's daily AQI at 57 on average, from 43 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 89 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 Taonan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Taonan 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 Taonan?
Taonan has an estimated 16,336 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 5.2% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Taonan need?
Taonan needs roughly 93,619 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,060 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Taonan'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 Taonan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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