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Al Aḩmadī Air quality today
Air quality in Al Aḩmadī currently reads AQI 51 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 51
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 9.1
- tree cover
- 1.8%
- trees in this area
- 5.7K
- more trees needed
- 88.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Block 6, Al Ahmadi, Kuwait (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 18, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Aḩmadī · AQI 51 (Moderate)
Al Aḩmadī's tree count comes to 5,655 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 88,593 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Aḩmadī today: AQI 51, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 16:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Al-Fahaheel, Kuwait, 3.1 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
9.1
PM10
18.4
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Environmental Monitoring Information System of Kuwait (eMISK)
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Aḩmadī's daily AQI at 155 on average, from 117 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 221 on Nov 7.
Where Al Aḩmadī stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Aḩmadī: Critically low
1.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
5,655
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
88,593
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,949 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Aḩmadī lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Aḩmadī 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 Al Aḩmadī right now?
The latest reading for Al Aḩmadī shows an AQI of 51 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 16:00 local time by the Al-Fahaheel, Kuwait ground monitoring station, 3.1 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Aḩmadī today?
At AQI 51 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Al Aḩmadī been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Aḩmadī's daily AQI at 155 on average, from 117 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 221 on Nov 7. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Aḩmadī lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Aḩmadī 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 Al Aḩmadī?
Al Aḩmadī has an estimated 5,655 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.8% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Aḩmadī need?
Al Aḩmadī needs roughly 88,593 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,949 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Aḩmadī's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Block 6, 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 Block 6; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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