City report · Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Al Jubayl Air quality today
Air quality in Al Jubayl currently reads AQI 142 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 142
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 57.1
- tree cover
- 0.9%
- trees in this area
- 2.8K
- more trees needed
- 107K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Gharbal Mazari' Subdivision, Al Jubail Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Jubayl · AQI 142 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Al Jubayl's tree count comes to 2,827 trees across 12.57 km², 34 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 107,128 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Jubayl today: AQI 142, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 145 km, e.g. Dammam and Al Khobar
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
57.1
PM10
156.5
NO₂
9.7
O₃
84.0
SO₂
13.5
CO
152.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Jubayl's daily AQI at 95 on average, from 81 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 202 on Nov 8.
Where Al Jubayl stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Jubayl: Critically low
0.9% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
2,827
Target trees
109,955
More trees needed
107,128
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,357 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Jubayl lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Jubayl 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Al Jubayl
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Dammam80.5 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 77
- Khobar100.6 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 87
- Manama129.9 km
Bahrain
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 100
- Madīnat Ḩamad133.4 km
Bahrain
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 100
- Al Hufūf183.8 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 161
- Az̧ Z̧a‘āyin245.0 km
Qatar
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 85
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Jubayl right now?
The latest reading for Al Jubayl shows an AQI of 142 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Jubayl today?
At AQI 142 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: 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 Jubayl been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Jubayl's daily AQI at 95 on average, from 81 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 202 on Nov 8. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Jubayl lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Jubayl 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 Jubayl?
Al Jubayl has an estimated 2,827 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.9% tree cover, 34 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Jubayl need?
Al Jubayl needs roughly 107,128 more trees to close a 34-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,357 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Jubayl'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 Gharbal Mazari' Subdivision; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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