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Amman Air quality today
Air quality in Amman currently reads AQI 57 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 57
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.7
- tree cover
- 3.8%
- trees in this area
- 11.9K
- more trees needed
- 82.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Jabal Al Jofah, Amman, Jordan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Amman · AQI 57 (Moderate)
Amman's tree count comes to 11,938 trees across 12.57 km², 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 82,310 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Amman today: AQI 57, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 19 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 19 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Jerusalem and Jerusalem
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
10.7
PM10
9.0
NO₂
3.6
O₃
91.0
SO₂
15.3
CO
140.0
- 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 Amman's daily AQI at 51 on average, from 36 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 82 on Nov 11.
Where Amman stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Amman: Critically low
3.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
11,938
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
82,310
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,811 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Amman lost?
There was almost no forest around Amman 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Amman
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- As Salţ22.6 km
Jordan
- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 63
- Ar Ramthā67.4 km
Jordan
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 62
- East Jerusalem69.8 km
Palestinian Territory
- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 53
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Amman right now?
The latest reading for Amman shows an AQI of 57 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 19 ground-station cities within 225 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 Amman today?
At AQI 57 (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 Amman been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Amman's daily AQI at 51 on average, from 36 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 82 on Nov 11. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Amman lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Amman 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 Amman?
Amman has an estimated 11,938 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.8% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Amman need?
Amman needs roughly 82,310 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,811 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Amman'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 Jabal Al Jofah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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