City report · Xinjiang, China
Turpan Air quality today
Air quality in Turpan currently reads AQI 188 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 188
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 107.8
- tree cover
- 9.9%
- trees in this area
- 31.1K
- more trees needed
- 94.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Gaochang District, Turpan, Xinjiang, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Turpan · AQI 188 (Unhealthy)
Turpan's tree count comes to 31,102 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 94,562 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Turpan today: AQI 188, Unhealthy
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 · City EPA, Turpan (吐鲁番地区市环保局), 1.2 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
107.8
PM10
188.3
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Turpan's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 26 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 75 on Nov 7.
Where Turpan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Turpan: Critically low
9.9% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
31,102
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
94,562
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,080 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Turpan lost?
There was almost no forest around Turpan 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 June 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Turpan right now?
The latest reading for Turpan shows an AQI of 188 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 22:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is City EPA, Turpan (吐鲁番地区市环保局), 1.2 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Turpan today?
At AQI 188 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Turpan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Turpan's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 26 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 75 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Turpan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Turpan 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 Turpan?
Turpan has an estimated 31,102 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 9.9% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Turpan need?
Turpan needs roughly 94,562 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,080 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Turpan's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Gaochang District, 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 Gaochang District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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