City report · Beni Suweif, Egypt
Al Fashn Air quality today
Air quality in Al Fashn currently reads AQI 306 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
AQI 306
Air quality right now
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 256.0
- tree cover
- 23.2%
- trees in this area
- 66.1K
- more trees needed
- 62.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around El Fashn, Madinet Al Fashn, Al Fashn, Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Fashn · AQI 306 (Hazardous)
Al Fashn's tree count comes to 66,107 trees across 11.4 km² of land, 22 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 62,117 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Fashn today: AQI 306, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 185 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
256.0
PM10
570.0
NO₂
5.6
O₃
87.0
SO₂
10.6
CO
138.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Fashn's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 93 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 194 on Nov 10.
Where Al Fashn stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Fashn: Critically low
23.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.4 km² of land.
Trees in this area
66,107
Target trees
128,224
More trees needed
62,117
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,367 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Fashn lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Fashn 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 August 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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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Fashn right now?
The latest reading for Al Fashn shows an AQI of 306 (Hazardous), observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Fashn today?
At AQI 306 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Al Fashn been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Fashn's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 93 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 194 on Nov 10. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Fashn lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Fashn 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 Fashn?
Al Fashn has an estimated 66,107 trees across the 11.4 km² of land measured — 23.2% tree cover, 22 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Fashn need?
Al Fashn needs roughly 62,117 more trees to close a 22-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,367 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Fashn'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 El Fashn; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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