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Al-Musayab Air quality today
Air quality in Al-Musayab currently reads AQI 122 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 122
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 41.9
- tree cover
- 16.9%
- trees in this area
- 49.9K
- more trees needed
- 53.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Musayib, 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-Musayab · AQI 122 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Al-Musayab's tree count comes to 49,907 trees across 11.82 km² of land, 18 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 53,451 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al-Musayab today: AQI 122, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
41.9
PM10
23.5
NO₂
5.0
O₃
49.0
SO₂
7.8
CO
191.0
- 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-Musayab's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 58 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 164 on Nov 5.
Where Al-Musayab stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al-Musayab: Critically low
16.9% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.82 km² of land.
Trees in this area
49,907
Target trees
103,358
More trees needed
53,451
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,176 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al-Musayab lost?
There was almost no forest around Al-Musayab 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 429 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 486 ha
- Overall change
- +57 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Al-Musayab grew from about 429 hectares to 486 hectares, a net gain of about 57 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 57 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al-Musayab right now?
The latest reading for Al-Musayab shows an AQI of 122 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 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-Musayab today?
At AQI 122 (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-Musayab been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al-Musayab's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 58 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 164 on Nov 5. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al-Musayab lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al-Musayab 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Al-Musayab grew from about 429 hectares to 486 hectares, a net gain of about 57 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 57 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Al-Musayab?
Al-Musayab has an estimated 49,907 trees across the 11.82 km² of land measured — 16.9% tree cover, 18 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al-Musayab need?
Al-Musayab needs roughly 53,451 more trees to close a 18-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,176 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al-Musayab'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 Musayib; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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