City report · Khuzestan, Iran
Abadan Air quality today
Air quality in Abadan currently reads AQI 37 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 37
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 7.1
- tree cover
- 7.3%
- trees in this area
- 22.8K
- more trees needed
- 70.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Ahmadabad, Ahvaz, Abadan, Khuzestan Province, Iran (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Abadan · AQI 37 (Good)
Abadan's tree count comes to 22,796 trees across 12.49 km² of land, 23 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 70,886 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Abadan today: AQI 37, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Kuwait City and Block 5, Kuwait
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
7.1
PM10
93.6
NO₂
7.1
O₃
104.0
SO₂
24.9
CO
198.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Abadan's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 71 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 179 on Nov 7.
Where Abadan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Abadan: Critically low
7.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.49 km² of land.
Trees in this area
22,796
Target trees
93,682
More trees needed
70,886
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,559 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Abadan lost?
There was almost no forest around Abadan 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 August 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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Frequently asked
Questions about Abadan
What is the air quality (AQI) in Abadan right now?
The latest reading for Abadan shows an AQI of 37 (Good), observed Nov 11, 14:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Abadan today?
At AQI 37 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Abadan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Abadan's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 71 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 179 on Nov 7. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Abadan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Abadan 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 Abadan?
Abadan has an estimated 22,796 trees across the 12.49 km² of land measured — 7.3% tree cover, 23 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Abadan need?
Abadan needs roughly 70,886 more trees to close a 23-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,559 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Abadan'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 Ahmadabad; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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