City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Wazirabad Air quality today
Air quality in Wazirabad currently reads AQI 198 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 198
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 123.0
- tree cover
- 11.2%
- trees in this area
- 35.2K
- more trees needed
- 90.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Wazirabad, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 13, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Wazirabad · AQI 198 (Unhealthy)
Wazirabad's tree count comes to 35,186 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 90,478 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Wazirabad today: AQI 198, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Gujrat GT Road B, 8.3 km away
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
123.0
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · Hawanama
- 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 Wazirabad's daily AQI at 182 on average, from 114 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 336 on Nov 11.
Where Wazirabad stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Wazirabad: Critically low
11.2% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
35,186
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
90,478
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,991 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Wazirabad lost?
There was almost no forest around Wazirabad 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 105 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 286 ha
- Overall change
- +181 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Wazirabad grew from about 105 hectares to 286 hectares, a net gain of about 181 hectares (+172%). New forest grew on about 181 hectares, while under 1 hectare was 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 Wazirabad right now?
The latest reading for Wazirabad shows an AQI of 198 (Unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by the Gujrat GT Road B ground monitoring station, 8.3 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Wazirabad today?
At AQI 198 (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 Wazirabad been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Wazirabad's daily AQI at 182 on average, from 114 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 336 on Nov 11. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Wazirabad lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Wazirabad 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 Wazirabad grew from about 105 hectares to 286 hectares, a net gain of about 181 hectares (+172%). New forest grew on about 181 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Wazirabad?
Wazirabad has an estimated 35,186 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 11.2% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Wazirabad need?
Wazirabad needs roughly 90,478 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,991 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Wazirabad's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Wazirabad, 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 Wazirabad; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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