City report · Qinghai, China
Xining Air quality today
Air quality in Xining currently reads AQI 124 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 124
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 44.8
- tree cover
- 19.8%
- trees in this area
- 61.7K
- more trees needed
- 47.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Chengxi District, Xining, Qinghai, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 18, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Xining · AQI 124 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Xining's tree count comes to 61,706 trees across 12.47 km² of land, 15 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 47,370 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Xining today: AQI 124, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 12, 00:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · 城北区政府, Xining (西宁城北区政府), 2.6 km away
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
44.8
PM10
83.3
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project
- 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 Xining's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 66 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 158 on Nov 10.
Where Xining stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Xining: Critically low
19.8% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.47 km² of land.
Trees in this area
61,706
Target trees
109,076
More trees needed
47,370
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,042 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Xining lost?
There was almost no forest around Xining 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Xining right now?
The latest reading for Xining shows an AQI of 124 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 12, 00:00 local time by the 城北区政府, Xining (西宁城北区政府) ground monitoring station, 2.6 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Xining today?
At AQI 124 (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 Xining been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Xining's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 66 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 158 on Nov 10. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Xining lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Xining 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 Xining?
Xining has an estimated 61,706 trees across the 12.47 km² of land measured — 19.8% tree cover, 15 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Xining need?
Xining needs roughly 47,370 more trees to close a 15-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,042 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Xining's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Chengxi 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 Chengxi District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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