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Al Maḩmūdīyah Air quality today
Air quality in Al Maḩmūdīyah currently reads AQI 54 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 54
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.3
- tree cover
- 4.4%
- trees in this area
- 13.8K
- more trees needed
- 80.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mahmudiyah, Babylon Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Maḩmūdīyah · AQI 54 (Moderate)
Al Maḩmūdīyah's tree count comes to 13,823 trees across 12.57 km², 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 80,425 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Maḩmūdīyah today: AQI 54, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 13:00 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. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
10.3
PM10
4.1
NO₂
4.2
O₃
85.0
SO₂
5.0
CO
225.0
- 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 Maḩmūdīyah's daily AQI at 63 on average, from 26 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 146 on Nov 7.
Where Al Maḩmūdīyah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Maḩmūdīyah: Critically low
4.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
13,823
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
80,425
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,769 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Maḩmūdīyah lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Maḩmūdīyah 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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Questions about Al Maḩmūdīyah
What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Maḩmūdīyah right now?
The latest reading for Al Maḩmūdīyah shows an AQI of 54 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Maḩmūdīyah today?
At AQI 54 (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 Maḩmūdīyah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Maḩmūdīyah's daily AQI at 63 on average, from 26 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 146 on Nov 7. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Maḩmūdīyah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Maḩmūdīyah 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 Maḩmūdīyah?
Al Maḩmūdīyah has an estimated 13,823 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 4.4% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Maḩmūdīyah need?
Al Maḩmūdīyah needs roughly 80,425 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,769 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Maḩmūdīyah'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 Mahmudiyah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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