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Al Khums Air quality today
Air quality in Al Khums currently reads AQI 36 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 36
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 7.1
- tree cover
- 1.6%
- trees in this area
- 4.0K
- more trees needed
- 71.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Khoms, Libya (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 10, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Khums · AQI 36 (Good)
Al Khums's tree count comes to 4,001 trees across 10.01 km² of land, 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 71,020 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Khums today: AQI 36, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
7.1
PM10
13.0
NO₂
11.2
O₃
42.0
SO₂
1.7
CO
335.0
- 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 Khums's daily AQI at 29 on average, from 24 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 46 on Nov 7.
Where Al Khums stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Khums: Critically low
1.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.01 km² of land.
Trees in this area
4,001
Target trees
75,021
More trees needed
71,020
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,562 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Khums lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Khums 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 July 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Khums right now?
The latest reading for Al Khums shows an AQI of 36 (Good), observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Khums today?
At AQI 36 (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 Khums been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Khums's daily AQI at 29 on average, from 24 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 46 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Khums lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Khums 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 Khums?
Al Khums has an estimated 4,001 trees across the 10.01 km² of land measured — 1.6% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Khums need?
Al Khums needs roughly 71,020 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,562 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Khums'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 Khoms; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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