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Verāval Air quality today
Air quality in Verāval currently reads AQI 141 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 141
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 49.9
- tree cover
- 9.7%
- trees in this area
- 19.2K
- more trees needed
- 50.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around New Patelwada, Viraval Village, Veraval, Gujarat 362265, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 31, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Verāval · AQI 141 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Verāval's tree count comes to 19,229 trees across 7.93 km² of land, 25 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 50,153 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Verāval today: AQI 141, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 02:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Rajkot and Bhavnagar
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
49.9
PM10
27.5
NO₂
7.1
O₃
101.0
SO₂
4.4
CO
248.0
- 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 Verāval's daily AQI at 92 on average, from 77 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 136 on Nov 9.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Verāval: Critically low
9.7% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 7.93 km² of land.
Trees in this area
19,229
Target trees
69,382
More trees needed
50,153
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,103 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Verāval lost?
There was almost no forest around Verāval 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 February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 955 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,250 ha
- Overall change
- +298 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Verāval grew from about 955 hectares to 1,250 hectares, a net gain of about 298 hectares (+31%). New forest grew on about 307 hectares, while 9 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Verāval right now?
The latest reading for Verāval shows an AQI of 141 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 02:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 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 Verāval today?
At AQI 141 (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 Verāval been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Verāval's daily AQI at 92 on average, from 77 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 136 on Nov 9. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Verāval's AQI the same as India's AQI (CPCB)?
No. Airleaf shows the US EPA Air Quality Index (AQI), the scale used by IQAir and most air-quality apps. India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) publishes the National Air Quality Index on its own scale: 0–50 good, 51–100 satisfactory, 101–200 moderate, 201–300 poor, 301–400 very poor and 401–500 severe. The two scales don't line up. At moderate fine-particle levels the US scale reads higher: 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5 is 149 on the US AQI but about 92, "satisfactory", on India's. In heavy smog India's reads higher: 100 µg/m³ is 182 on the US AQI and about 232, "poor", on India's. CPCB also averages particles over 24 hours, so its figure moves more slowly than an hourly reading.
How much forest has the area around Verāval lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Verāval 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Verāval grew from about 955 hectares to 1,250 hectares, a net gain of about 298 hectares (+31%). New forest grew on about 307 hectares, while 9 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Verāval?
Verāval has an estimated 19,229 trees across the 7.93 km² of land measured — 9.7% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Verāval need?
Verāval needs roughly 50,153 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,103 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Verāval'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 New Patelwada; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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