City report · Qalyubia, Egypt
Al Khuşūş Air quality today
Air quality in Al Khuşūş currently reads AQI 89 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 89
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 30.4
- tree cover
- 0.6%
- trees in this area
- 1.9K
- more trees needed
- 92.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Khusus, Al Qalyubiyah, 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 Khuşūş · AQI 89 (Moderate)
Al Khuşūş's tree count comes to 1,881 trees across 12.54 km² of land, 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 92,178 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Khuşūş today: AQI 89, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 25 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 25 km, e.g. Obour and New Cairo 1
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
30.4
PM10
19.0
NO₂
31.8
O₃
23.0
SO₂
16.9
CO
263.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Khuşūş's daily AQI at 59 on average, from 45 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 117 on Nov 5.
Where Al Khuşūş stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Khuşūş: Critically low
0.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.54 km² of land.
Trees in this area
1,881
Target trees
94,059
More trees needed
92,178
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,028 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Khuşūş lost?
There was very little forest around Al Khuşūş in 2000, about 51 hectares, and about 3 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.
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 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 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 Khuşūş?
- Towns and roadscleared for good36% · under 1 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good16% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown44% · 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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 Khuşūş right now?
The latest reading for Al Khuşūş shows an AQI of 89 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 25 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Khuşūş today?
At AQI 89 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Al Khuşūş been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Khuşūş's daily AQI at 59 on average, from 45 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 117 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Khuşūş lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Al Khuşūş in 2000, about 51 hectares, and about 3 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.
What is the tree count in Al Khuşūş?
Al Khuşūş has an estimated 1,881 trees across the 12.54 km² of land measured — 0.6% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Khuşūş need?
Al Khuşūş needs roughly 92,178 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,028 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Khuşūş'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 Khusus; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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