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Abū al-Kahṣīb Air quality today
Air quality in Abū al-Kahṣīb currently reads AQI 34 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 34
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.7
- tree cover
- 3.9%
- trees in this area
- 12.2K
- more trees needed
- 81.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Abu Al-Khaseeb, Basra Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Abū al-Kahṣīb · AQI 34 (Good)
Abū al-Kahṣīb's tree count comes to 12,179 trees across 12.49 km² of land, 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 81,504 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Abū al-Kahṣīb today: AQI 34, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 145 km, e.g. Kuwait City and Al Jahra
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
6.7
PM10
90.3
NO₂
14.8
O₃
47.0
SO₂
19.3
CO
296.0
- 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 Abū al-Kahṣīb's daily AQI at 127 on average, from 82 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 228 on Nov 7.
Where Abū al-Kahṣīb stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Abū al-Kahṣīb: Critically low
3.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.49 km² of land.
Trees in this area
12,179
Target trees
93,683
More trees needed
81,504
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,793 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Abū al-Kahṣīb lost?
There was almost no forest around Abū al-Kahṣīb 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Abū al-Kahṣīb right now?
The latest reading for Abū al-Kahṣīb shows an AQI of 34 (Good), observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Abū al-Kahṣīb today?
At AQI 34 (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 Abū al-Kahṣīb been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Abū al-Kahṣīb's daily AQI at 127 on average, from 82 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 228 on Nov 7. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Abū al-Kahṣīb lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Abū al-Kahṣīb 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 Abū al-Kahṣīb?
Abū al-Kahṣīb has an estimated 12,179 trees across the 12.49 km² of land measured — 3.9% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Abū al-Kahṣīb need?
Abū al-Kahṣīb needs roughly 81,504 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,793 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Abū al-Kahṣīb'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 Abu Al-Khaseeb; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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