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Al Ḩawāmidīyah Air quality today
Air quality in Al Ḩawāmidīyah currently reads AQI 155 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 155
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 45.6
- tree cover
- 32.9%
- trees in this area
- 103K
- more trees needed
- 22.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al-Hawamidiyya, El Hawamdeya, Giza 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 Ḩawāmidīyah · AQI 155 (Unhealthy)
Al Ḩawāmidīyah's tree count comes to 103,358 trees across 12.57 km², 7 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 22,305 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Ḩawāmidīyah today: AQI 155, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 45 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
45.6
PM10
17.3
NO₂
14.2
O₃
86.0
SO₂
19.7
CO
189.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Ḩawāmidīyah's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 53 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 92 on Nov 11.
Where Al Ḩawāmidīyah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Ḩawāmidīyah: Below target
32.9% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
103,358
Target trees
125,663
More trees needed
22,305
CO₂ if planted / yr
490.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Ḩawāmidīyah lost?
There was very little forest around Al Ḩawāmidīyah in 2000, about 29 hectares, and about 6 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 September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2012, when about 5 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 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 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 | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 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 | 3 ha | 2 ha | 5 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 Al Ḩawāmidīyah?
- Towns and roadscleared for good59% · 4 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown41% · 3 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 246 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 252 ha
- Overall change
- +6 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Al Ḩawāmidīyah stayed about the same size, at about 252 hectares: new forest grew on about 8 hectares, and about 2 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Ḩawāmidīyah right now?
The latest reading for Al Ḩawāmidīyah shows an AQI of 155 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Ḩawāmidīyah today?
At AQI 155 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Al Ḩawāmidīyah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Ḩawāmidīyah's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 53 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 92 on Nov 11. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Ḩawāmidīyah lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Al Ḩawāmidīyah in 2000, about 29 hectares, and about 6 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Al Ḩawāmidīyah stayed about the same size, at about 252 hectares: new forest grew on about 8 hectares, and about 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Al Ḩawāmidīyah?
Al Ḩawāmidīyah has an estimated 103,358 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 32.9% tree cover, 7 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Ḩawāmidīyah need?
Al Ḩawāmidīyah needs roughly 22,305 more trees to close a 7-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 490.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Ḩawāmidīyah'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-Hawamidiyya; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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