City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Taunsa Air quality today
Air quality in Taunsa currently reads AQI 564 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 564
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 372.6
- tree cover
- 3.5%
- trees in this area
- 11.0K
- more trees needed
- 130K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Taunsa, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Taunsa · AQI 564 (Hazardous)
Taunsa's tree count comes to 10,996 trees across 12.57 km², 42 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 130,376 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Taunsa today: AQI 564, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
372.6
PM10
174.6
NO₂
24.6
O₃
114.0
SO₂
17.1
CO
530.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Taunsa's daily AQI at 179 on average, from 121 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 254 on Nov 10.
Where Taunsa stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Taunsa: Critically low
3.5% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
10,996
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
130,376
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,868 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Taunsa lost?
There was almost no forest around Taunsa 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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Measured cities near Taunsa
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Layyah39.7 km
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- Tree cover
- 13%
- Air quality
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- Kot Addu40.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 18%
- Air quality
- 457
- Dera Ghazi Khan73.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 9%
- Air quality
- 659
- Muzaffargarh87.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 443
- Multan97.3 km
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- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 643
- Qadirpur Ran108.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 34%
- Air quality
- 627
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Taunsa right now?
The latest reading for Taunsa shows an AQI of 564 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Taunsa today?
At AQI 564 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Taunsa been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Taunsa's daily AQI at 179 on average, from 121 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 254 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Taunsa lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Taunsa 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 Taunsa?
Taunsa has an estimated 10,996 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.5% tree cover, 42 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Taunsa need?
Taunsa needs roughly 130,376 more trees to close a 42-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,868 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Taunsa'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 Taunsa; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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