Asunción vs Canoas
Tree cover and air quality for both, measured the same way: Sentinel-2 imagery at 10 m detail over a 2 km radius from each city centre, and the live US EPA air quality index. Same radius and same index, so the two numbers compare directly.
Canoas has more tree cover — 26.5% against 20.9%.
Canoas has cleaner air right now — AQI 22 against 78.
- Tree cover gap
- 5.6 points
- Canoas is ahead.
- Air quality gap
- 56 AQI
- Canoas is cleaner.
- Trees between them
- 25.7K
- Canoas has more standing.
Tree cover
Share of the 2 km radius under canopy.
20.9%
26.5%
Air quality index
US EPA index, live, with its band. Lower is better.
78 · Moderate
22 · Good
Trees standing
Estimated from the measured canopy area.
57.5K
83.2K
Trees still needed
To reach the same canopy target. Fewer is better.
25.0K
11.0K
CO₂ absorbed each year
By the trees already standing.
1.3M kg
1.8M kg
Air quality in detail
What each city is breathing
Concentrations in µg/m³, measured at the same moment as the index above. Lower is better in every row. Asunción is read from nearby ground stations and Canoas is modelled — worth knowing, since the two are not quite like for like.
PM2.5
Fine particles, the pollutant that usually sets the index.
25 µg/m³
5.3 µg/m³
The last week, day by day
A single reading can catch a city on a bad afternoon. The week says whether it was the weather or the place.
| Day | Asunción | Canoas |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept | 25 | 24 |
| 23 Sept | 29 | 35 |
| 24 Sept | 40 | 59 |
| 25 Sept | 44 | 57 |
| 26 Sept | 36 | 73 |
| 27 Sept | 47 | 28 |
| 28 Sept | 41 | 23 |
Reading these numbers
What is actually being measured
Tree cover
The share of ground under canopy inside a 2 km radius of each city centre, read from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10 m detail. It is a measurement of that circle, not of the whole municipality — which is exactly what makes the two comparable, since city boundaries are drawn to wildly different rules around the world. Canoas leads here at 26.5%.
Air quality index
The live US EPA index, computed from current pollutant concentrations — ground stations where a city has them nearby, and a model everywhere else. It moves hour to hour, so this is a snapshot rather than a verdict on either place: Asunción reads 78 (moderate) and Canoas reads 22 (good) right now.
Frequently asked
Asunción and Canoas, answered
Which has more trees, Asunción or Canoas?
Canoas, with roughly 83,169 trees inside its 2 km radius against 57,452. Tree cover tells a slightly different story from raw count: Canoas has the denser canopy at 26.5%.
Which has better air quality, Asunción or Canoas?
Canoas right now, at AQI 22 against 78 — a gap of 56 points. This is a live reading rather than an annual average, so it can reverse within a day.
How many more trees does each city need?
Asunción needs about 25,015 more to reach its canopy target, and Canoas about 10,985. The target is the same share of ground for both, so the figures are directly comparable.
Are these two measured the same way?
Yes — that is the point of the page. Identical radius, identical satellite source at 10 m detail, and the same US EPA index for air. Nothing here is adjusted for population, city limits or climate, so the numbers describe the same-sized circle of ground in each place.
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