City report · Basra, Iraq
Al Qurnah Air quality today
Air quality in Al Qurnah currently reads AQI 36 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 36
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.3
- tree cover
- 2.8%
- trees in this area
- 8.4K
- more trees needed
- 81.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around محلة النهيرات، القرنة، البصرة محافظة، 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 Qurnah · AQI 36 (Good)
Al Qurnah's tree count comes to 8,383 trees across 11.98 km² of land, 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 81,435 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Qurnah today: AQI 36, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 11:00 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
6.3
PM10
114.3
NO₂
6.4
O₃
85.0
SO₂
18.2
CO
196.0
- 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 Qurnah's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 73 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 198 on Nov 7.
Where Al Qurnah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Qurnah: Critically low
2.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.98 km² of land.
Trees in this area
8,383
Target trees
89,818
More trees needed
81,435
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,792 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Qurnah lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Qurnah 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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Frequently asked
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Qurnah right now?
The latest reading for Al Qurnah shows an AQI of 36 (Good), observed Nov 11, 11:00 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 Qurnah 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 Qurnah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Qurnah's daily AQI at 103 on average, from 73 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 198 on Nov 7. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Qurnah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Qurnah 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 Qurnah?
Al Qurnah has an estimated 8,383 trees across the 11.98 km² of land measured — 2.8% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Qurnah need?
Al Qurnah needs roughly 81,435 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,792 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Qurnah'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 محلة النهيرات، القرنة، البصرة محافظة، Iraq; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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