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6th of October City Air quality today
Air quality in 6th of October City currently reads AQI 103 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 103
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 39.2
- tree cover
- 1.1%
- trees in this area
- 3.5K
- more trees needed
- 107K
Measured across a 2 km radius around 6th of October City, Giza Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
6th of October City · AQI 103 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
6th of October City's tree count comes to 3,456 trees across 12.57 km², 34 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 106,500 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in 6th of October City today: AQI 103, 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 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 65 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
39.2
PM10
13.7
NO₂
23.8
O₃
38.0
SO₂
15.5
CO
213.0
- 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 6th of October City's daily AQI at 51 on average, from 41 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 5.
Where 6th of October City stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in 6th of October City: Critically low
1.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
3,456
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
106,500
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,343 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has 6th of October City lost?
There was almost no forest around 6th of October City 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 6th of October City right now?
The latest reading for 6th of October City shows an AQI of 103 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 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 6th of October City today?
At AQI 103 (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 6th of October City been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put 6th of October City's daily AQI at 51 on average, from 41 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around 6th of October City lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around 6th of October City 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 6th of October City?
6th of October City has an estimated 3,456 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.1% tree cover, 34 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does 6th of October City need?
6th of October City needs roughly 106,500 more trees to close a 34-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,343 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are 6th of October City'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 6th of October City; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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