City report · Basra, Iraq
Al Madīnah Air quality today
Air quality in Al Madīnah currently reads AQI 31 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 31
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 5.0
- tree cover
- 14.5%
- trees in this area
- 43.0K
- more trees needed
- 45.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Qada al Madinah, Al Basrah, 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 Madīnah · AQI 31 (Good)
Al Madīnah's tree count comes to 42,957 trees across 11.85 km² of land, 16 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 45,919 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Madīnah today: AQI 31, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Al Jahra and Kuwait City
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
5.0
PM10
91.3
NO₂
6.8
O₃
87.0
SO₂
18.2
CO
160.0
- 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 Madīnah's daily AQI at 112 on average, from 71 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 276 on Nov 7.
Where Al Madīnah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Madīnah: Critically low
14.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.85 km² of land.
Trees in this area
42,957
Target trees
88,876
More trees needed
45,919
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,010 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Madīnah lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Madīnah 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 August 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 Madīnah right now?
The latest reading for Al Madīnah shows an AQI of 31 (Good), observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Madīnah today?
At AQI 31 (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 Madīnah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Madīnah's daily AQI at 112 on average, from 71 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 276 on Nov 7. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Madīnah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Madīnah 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 Madīnah?
Al Madīnah has an estimated 42,957 trees across the 11.85 km² of land measured — 14.5% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Madīnah need?
Al Madīnah needs roughly 45,919 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,010 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Madīnah'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 Qada al Madinah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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