City report · Ankara, Turkey
Ankara Air quality today
Air quality in Ankara currently reads AQI 127 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 127
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 46.1
- tree cover
- 22.0%
- trees in this area
- 68.8K
- more trees needed
- 40.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Ankara, Türkiye (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 12, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ankara · AQI 127 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Ankara's tree count comes to 68,839 trees across 12.52 km² of land, 13 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 40,677 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ankara today: AQI 127, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Sıhhıye, Turkey, 900 m away · median of 7 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
46.1
PM10
59.0
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Turkey National Air Quality Monitoring Network (Ulusal Hava Kalitesi İzleme Ağı)
- 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 Ankara's daily AQI at 72 on average, from 58 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 156 on Nov 9.
Where Ankara stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ankara: Below target
22.0% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.52 km² of land.
Trees in this area
68,839
Target trees
109,516
More trees needed
40,677
CO₂ if planted / yr
894.9 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ankara lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Ankara has lost about 8 hectares of forest (about 11 football pitches): 2.7% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (85%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 8 haabout 11 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 2.7%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 7 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2012, when about 2 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
Show the figures as a table
| 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 | under 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 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2009 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 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 Ankara?
- Towns and roadscleared for good70% · 6 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good14% · 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown15% · 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,370 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,550 ha
- Overall change
- +174 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Ankara grew from about 1,370 hectares to 1,550 hectares, a net gain of about 174 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 199 hectares, while 25 hectares were 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 Ankara right now?
The latest reading for Ankara shows an AQI of 127 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by 7 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Sıhhıye, Turkey, 900 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ankara today?
At AQI 127 (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 Ankara been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ankara's daily AQI at 72 on average, from 58 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 156 on Nov 9. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ankara lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Ankara has lost about 8 hectares of forest (about 11 football pitches): 2.7% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (85%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Ankara grew from about 1,370 hectares to 1,550 hectares, a net gain of about 174 hectares (+13%). New forest grew on about 199 hectares, while 25 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Ankara?
Ankara has an estimated 68,839 trees across the 12.52 km² of land measured — 22.0% tree cover, 13 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ankara need?
Ankara needs roughly 40,677 more trees to close a 13-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 894.9 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ankara's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Ankara, 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 Ankara; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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