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Al Diwaniyah Air quality today
Air quality in Al Diwaniyah currently reads AQI 77 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 77
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 24.1
- tree cover
- 1.2%
- trees in this area
- 3.8K
- more trees needed
- 90.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Diwaniyah, Al-Qādisiyyah 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.
Al Diwaniyah · AQI 77 (Moderate)
Al Diwaniyah's tree count comes to 3,766 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 90,387 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Diwaniyah today: AQI 77, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 165 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
24.1
PM10
8.4
NO₂
11.2
O₃
41.0
SO₂
18.4
CO
215.0
- 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 Diwaniyah's daily AQI at 72 on average, from 39 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 148 on Nov 7.
Where Al Diwaniyah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Diwaniyah: Critically low
1.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
3,766
Target trees
94,153
More trees needed
90,387
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,989 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Diwaniyah lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Diwaniyah 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 September 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Diwaniyah right now?
The latest reading for Al Diwaniyah shows an AQI of 77 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Diwaniyah today?
At AQI 77 (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 Diwaniyah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Diwaniyah's daily AQI at 72 on average, from 39 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 148 on Nov 7. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Diwaniyah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Diwaniyah 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 Diwaniyah?
Al Diwaniyah has an estimated 3,766 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 1.2% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Diwaniyah need?
Al Diwaniyah needs roughly 90,387 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,989 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Diwaniyah'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 Al Diwaniyah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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