City report · Inner Mongolia, China
Xilinhot Air quality today
Air quality in Xilinhot currently reads AQI 58 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 58
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 12.6
- tree cover
- 7.0%
- trees in this area
- 21.6K
- more trees needed
- 70.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Xilinhot, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Xilinhot · AQI 58 (Moderate)
Xilinhot's tree count comes to 21,551 trees across 12.32 km² of land, 23 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 70,811 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Xilinhot today: AQI 58, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 23:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · City government, Xilin Gol Meng (锡林郭勒盟市政府), 1.1 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
12.6
PM10
34.6
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Xilinhot's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 27 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 10.
Where Xilinhot stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Xilinhot: Critically low
7.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.32 km² of land.
Trees in this area
21,551
Target trees
92,362
More trees needed
70,811
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,558 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Xilinhot lost?
There was almost no forest around Xilinhot 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 August 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 Xilinhot right now?
The latest reading for Xilinhot shows an AQI of 58 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 23:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is City government, Xilin Gol Meng (锡林郭勒盟市政府), 1.1 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Xilinhot today?
At AQI 58 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Xilinhot been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Xilinhot's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 27 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 10. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Xilinhot lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Xilinhot 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 Xilinhot?
Xilinhot has an estimated 21,551 trees across the 12.32 km² of land measured — 7.0% tree cover, 23 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Xilinhot need?
Xilinhot needs roughly 70,811 more trees to close a 23-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,558 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Xilinhot's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Xilinhot, 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 Xilinhot; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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