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Yushu, Jilin Air quality today
Air quality in Yushu, Jilin currently reads AQI 173 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 173
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 82.9
- tree cover
- 7.0%
- trees in this area
- 22.0K
- more trees needed
- 104K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Yushu, Jilin, Changchun, Jilin, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Yushu, Jilin · AQI 173 (Unhealthy)
Yushu, Jilin's tree count comes to 21,969 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 33 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 103,569 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Yushu, Jilin today: AQI 173, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 7 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Harbin and Jilin City
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
82.9
PM10
60.8
NO₂
30.2
O₃
32.0
SO₂
11.5
CO
399.0
- 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 Yushu, Jilin's daily AQI at 87 on average, from 58 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 184 on Nov 10.
Where Yushu, Jilin stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Yushu, Jilin: Critically low
7.0% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
21,969
Target trees
125,538
More trees needed
103,569
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,279 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Yushu, Jilin lost?
There was almost no forest around Yushu, Jilin 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 September 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 Yushu, Jilin right now?
The latest reading for Yushu, Jilin shows an AQI of 173 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Yushu, Jilin today?
At AQI 173 (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 Yushu, Jilin been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Yushu, Jilin's daily AQI at 87 on average, from 58 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 184 on Nov 10. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Yushu, Jilin lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Yushu, Jilin 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 Yushu, Jilin?
Yushu, Jilin has an estimated 21,969 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 7.0% tree cover, 33 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Yushu, Jilin need?
Yushu, Jilin needs roughly 103,569 more trees to close a 33-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,279 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Yushu, Jilin'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 Yushu; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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