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Alicante Air quality today
Air quality in Alicante currently reads AQI 33 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 33
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.0
- tree cover
- 6.4%
- trees in this area
- 12.5K
- more trees needed
- 46.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Barri Vell - Santa Creu, Alacant, Spain (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 21, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Alicante · AQI 33 (Good)
Alicante's tree count comes to 12,526 trees across 7.83 km² of land, 24 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 46,190 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Alicante today: AQI 33, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 16:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · ALACANT - RABASSA, 2.9 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
6.0
PM10
—
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
0.0
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · EEA
- 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 Alicante's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 19 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 59 on Nov 10.
Where Alicante stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Alicante: Critically low
6.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 7.83 km² of land.
Trees in this area
12,526
Target trees
58,716
More trees needed
46,190
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,016 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Alicante lost?
There was very little forest around Alicante in 2000, about 15 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 July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2004, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
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 | 1 ha | 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 Alicante?
- Loggingcan grow back67% · 2 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good26% · under 1 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good3.7% · under 1 ha
Also: unknown causes.
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 Alicante right now?
The latest reading for Alicante shows an AQI of 33 (Good), measured Nov 11, 16:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is ALACANT - RABASSA, 2.9 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Alicante today?
At AQI 33 (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 Alicante been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Alicante's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 19 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 59 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Alicante lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Alicante in 2000, about 15 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 Alicante?
Alicante has an estimated 12,526 trees across the 7.83 km² of land measured — 6.4% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Alicante need?
Alicante needs roughly 46,190 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,016 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Alicante's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Barri Vell - Santa Creu, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Barri Vell - Santa Creu; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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