City report · Baghdad, Iraq
Abū Ghurayb Air quality today
Air quality in Abū Ghurayb currently reads AQI 101 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 101
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 35.6
- tree cover
- 6.1%
- trees in this area
- 19.2K
- more trees needed
- 90.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Abū Ghurayb · AQI 101 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Abū Ghurayb's tree count comes to 19,164 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 90,792 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Abū Ghurayb today: AQI 101, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:57 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Hydro-C Demo, 19.7 km away
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
35.6
PM10
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NO₂
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O₃
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SO₂
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CO
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Data: OpenAQ · Clarity
- 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 Abū Ghurayb's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 20 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 145 on Nov 7.
Where Abū Ghurayb stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Abū Ghurayb: Critically low
6.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
19,164
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
90,792
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,997 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Abū Ghurayb lost?
There was almost no forest around Abū Ghurayb 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 June 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Baghdad20.5 km
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- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 101
- Al Maḩmūdīyah31.9 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 56
- 48.9 km
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 60
- Al-Musayab59.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 132
- Baqubah63.3 km
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- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 82
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Abū Ghurayb right now?
The latest reading for Abū Ghurayb shows an AQI of 101 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 21:57 local time by the Hydro-C Demo ground monitoring station, 19.7 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Abū Ghurayb today?
At AQI 101 (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 Abū Ghurayb been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Abū Ghurayb's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 20 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 145 on Nov 7. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Abū Ghurayb lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Abū Ghurayb 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 Ghurayb?
Abū Ghurayb has an estimated 19,164 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 6.1% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Abū Ghurayb need?
Abū Ghurayb needs roughly 90,792 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,997 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Abū Ghurayb's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Baghdad, 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 Baghdad; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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