City report · Basra, Iraq
Al Fāw Air quality today
Air quality in Al Fāw currently reads AQI 43 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 43
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 8.5
- tree cover
- 0.2%
- trees in this area
- 545
- more trees needed
- 81.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al-Faw, Basra Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Fāw · AQI 43 (Good)
Al Fāw's tree count comes to 545 trees across 10.9 km² of land, 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 81,168 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Fāw today: AQI 43, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Kuwait City and Block 5, Kuwait
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
8.5
PM10
147.6
NO₂
7.9
O₃
95.0
SO₂
24.6
CO
245.0
- 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 Al Fāw's daily AQI at 125 on average, from 92 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 173 on Nov 7.
Where Al Fāw stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Fāw: Critically low
0.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.9 km² of land.
Trees in this area
545
Target trees
81,713
More trees needed
81,168
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,786 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Fāw lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Fāw 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 October 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Al Fāw
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Abadan43.7 km
Iran
- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 37
- Umm Qaşr53.8 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 66
- Khorramshahr58.8 km
Iran
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 44
- Abū al-Kahṣīb77.4 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 34
- Kuwait City83.0 km
Kuwait
- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 40
- Az Zubayr87.5 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 0%
- Air quality
- 65
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Fāw right now?
The latest reading for Al Fāw shows an AQI of 43 (Good), observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Fāw today?
At AQI 43 (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 Al Fāw been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Fāw's daily AQI at 125 on average, from 92 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 173 on Nov 7. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Fāw lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Fāw 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 Fāw?
Al Fāw has an estimated 545 trees across the 10.9 km² of land measured — 0.2% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Fāw need?
Al Fāw needs roughly 81,168 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,786 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Fāw'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-Faw; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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