City report · Khuzestan, Iran
Ahvaz Air quality today
Air quality in Ahvaz currently reads AQI 35 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 35
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 5.7
- tree cover
- 6.2%
- trees in this area
- 17.8K
- more trees needed
- 68.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Naderi, District 1, Ahvaz, 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.
Ahvaz · AQI 35 (Good)
Ahvaz's tree count comes to 17,842 trees across 11.51 km² of land, 24 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 68,489 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ahvaz today: AQI 35, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Kuwait City and Block 5, Kuwait
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
5.7
PM10
75.9
NO₂
6.7
O₃
105.0
SO₂
20.7
CO
361.0
- 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 Ahvaz's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 85 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 167 on Nov 9.
Where Ahvaz stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ahvaz: Critically low
6.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.51 km² of land.
Trees in this area
17,842
Target trees
86,331
More trees needed
68,489
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,507 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ahvaz lost?
There was very little forest around Ahvaz in 2000, about 22 hectares, and about 7 hectares of it has been lost 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.
The worst year was 2002, when about 2 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Ahvaz?
- Towns and roadscleared for good88% · 6 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown9.2% · under 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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 Ahvaz right now?
The latest reading for Ahvaz shows an AQI of 35 (Good), observed Nov 11, 12:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ahvaz today?
At AQI 35 (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 Ahvaz been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ahvaz's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 85 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 167 on Nov 9. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ahvaz lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Ahvaz in 2000, about 22 hectares, and about 7 hectares of it has been lost 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 Ahvaz?
Ahvaz has an estimated 17,842 trees across the 11.51 km² of land measured — 6.2% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ahvaz need?
Ahvaz needs roughly 68,489 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,507 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ahvaz'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 Naderi; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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