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Tashkent Air quality today
Air quality in Tashkent currently reads AQI 37 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 37
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.6
- tree cover
- 16.0%
- trees in this area
- 50.2K
- more trees needed
- 43.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Dombrabad, Tashkent, Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 17, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Tashkent · AQI 37 (Good)
Tashkent's tree count comes to 50,165 trees across 12.54 km² of land, 14 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 43,894 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Tashkent today: AQI 37, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 22:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Tashkent Chilanzar, Uzbekistan, 5.5 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
6.6
PM10
13.5
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, World Meteorological Organization - surface synoptic observations (WMO-SYNOP), Uzhydromet - Center for Hydrometeorological Service of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- 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 Tashkent's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 23 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 120 on Nov 5.
Where Tashkent stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Tashkent: Critically low
16.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.54 km² of land.
Trees in this area
50,165
Target trees
94,059
More trees needed
43,894
CO₂ if planted / yr
965.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Tashkent lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Tashkent has lost about 55 hectares of forest (about 78 football pitches): 4.5% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (80%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 55 haabout 78 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 4.5%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 44 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2009, when about 20 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
Show the figures as a table
| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2002 | 6 ha | 2 ha | 8 ha |
| 2003 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2004 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2005 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2006 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2007 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2008 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2009 | 17 ha | 3 ha | 20 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2012 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Tashkent?
- Towns and roadscleared for good78% · 43 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good2% · 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown20% · 11 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 712 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 731 ha
- Overall change
- +19 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Tashkent grew from about 712 hectares to 731 hectares, a net gain of about 19 hectares (+2.7%). New forest grew on about 157 hectares, while 138 hectares 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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Questions about Tashkent
What is the air quality (AQI) in Tashkent right now?
The latest reading for Tashkent shows an AQI of 37 (Good), measured Nov 11, 22:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Tashkent Chilanzar, Uzbekistan, 5.5 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Tashkent today?
At AQI 37 (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 Tashkent been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Tashkent's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 23 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 120 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 Tashkent lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Tashkent has lost about 55 hectares of forest (about 78 football pitches): 4.5% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (80%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Tashkent grew from about 712 hectares to 731 hectares, a net gain of about 19 hectares (+2.7%). New forest grew on about 157 hectares, while 138 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Tashkent?
Tashkent has an estimated 50,165 trees across the 12.54 km² of land measured — 16.0% tree cover, 14 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Tashkent need?
Tashkent needs roughly 43,894 more trees to close a 14-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 965.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Tashkent's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Dombrabad, 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 Dombrabad; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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