City report · Henan, China
Xinyang Air quality today
Air quality in Xinyang currently reads AQI 108 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 108
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 40.2
- tree cover
- 16.2%
- trees in this area
- 47.8K
- more trees needed
- 55.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shihe District, Xinyang, Henan, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 13, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Xinyang · AQI 108 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Xinyang's tree count comes to 47,789 trees across 11.8 km² of land, 19 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 55,459 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Xinyang today: AQI 108, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Fuyang and Pingdingshan
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
40.2
PM10
37.4
NO₂
66.5
O₃
1.0
SO₂
14.1
CO
493.0
- 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 Xinyang's daily AQI at 99 on average, from 77 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 163 on Nov 6.
Where Xinyang stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Xinyang: Critically low
16.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.8 km² of land.
Trees in this area
47,789
Target trees
103,248
More trees needed
55,459
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,220 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Xinyang lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Xinyang has lost about 154 hectares of forest (about 220 football pitches): 8.3% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (64%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km west of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 154 haabout 220 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 8.3%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 98 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2025, when about 38 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2011 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2012 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2013 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2014 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2018 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2019 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2020 | 9 ha | 2 ha | 11 ha |
| 2021 | 9 ha | 1 ha | 11 ha |
| 2022 | 6 ha | 5 ha | 11 ha |
| 2023 | 8 ha | 3 ha | 11 ha |
| 2024 | 14 ha | 24 ha | 37 ha |
| 2025 | 23 ha | 15 ha | 38 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Xinyang?
- Towns and roadscleared for good54% · 83 ha
- Loggingcan grow back30% · 46 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good10% · 16 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 9,280 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 9,230 ha
- Overall change
- −51 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Xinyang stayed about the same size, at about 9,230 hectares: new forest grew on about 185 hectares, and about 235 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 Xinyang right now?
The latest reading for Xinyang shows an AQI of 108 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 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 Xinyang today?
At AQI 108 (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 Xinyang been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Xinyang's daily AQI at 99 on average, from 77 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 163 on Nov 6. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Xinyang lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Xinyang has lost about 154 hectares of forest (about 220 football pitches): 8.3% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (64%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Xinyang stayed about the same size, at about 9,230 hectares: new forest grew on about 185 hectares, and about 235 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Xinyang?
Xinyang has an estimated 47,789 trees across the 11.8 km² of land measured — 16.2% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Xinyang need?
Xinyang needs roughly 55,459 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,220 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Xinyang'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 Shihe District; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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