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Abu Dhabi Air quality today
Air quality in Abu Dhabi currently reads AQI 122 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 122
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 38.2
- tree cover
- 14.1%
- trees in this area
- 43.6K
- more trees needed
- 64.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Nahyan - E25 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Abu Dhabi · AQI 122 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Abu Dhabi's tree count comes to 43,588 trees across 12.37 km² of land, 21 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 64,609 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Abu Dhabi today: AQI 122, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM10 · Observed Nov 11, 18:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Abu Dhabi City/Kalifah High School, UAE, 2.6 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
38.2
PM10
198.9
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, AED - Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi ( هيئة البيئة - أبو ظبي)
- 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 Abu Dhabi's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 73 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5.
Where Abu Dhabi stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Abu Dhabi: Critically low
14.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.37 km² of land.
Trees in this area
43,588
Target trees
108,197
More trees needed
64,609
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,421 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Abu Dhabi lost?
There was almost no forest around Abu Dhabi 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.
2018: satellite photo from September 2018 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Abu Dhabi right now?
The latest reading for Abu Dhabi shows an AQI of 122 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 18:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Abu Dhabi City/Kalifah High School, UAE, 2.6 km away). The main pollutant is PM10. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Abu Dhabi today?
At AQI 122 (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 Abu Dhabi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Abu Dhabi's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 73 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Abu Dhabi lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Abu Dhabi 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 Abu Dhabi?
Abu Dhabi has an estimated 43,588 trees across the 12.37 km² of land measured — 14.1% tree cover, 21 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Abu Dhabi need?
Abu Dhabi needs roughly 64,609 more trees to close a 21-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,421 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Abu Dhabi's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Al Nahyan - E25 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Al Nahyan - E25 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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