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Aqaba Air quality today
Air quality in Aqaba currently reads AQI 87 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 87
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 24.7
- tree cover
- 1.1%
- trees in this area
- 2.8K
- more trees needed
- 74.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Aqaba, Jordan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Aqaba · AQI 87 (Moderate)
Aqaba's tree count comes to 2,827 trees across 10.28 km² of land, 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 74,268 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Aqaba today: AQI 87, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Hebron and Gaza
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
24.7
PM10
34.8
NO₂
1.6
O₃
110.0
SO₂
6.9
CO
133.0
- 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 Aqaba's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 41 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 97 on Nov 10.
Where Aqaba stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Aqaba: Critically low
1.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.28 km² of land.
Trees in this area
2,827
Target trees
77,095
More trees needed
74,268
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,634 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Aqaba lost?
There was almost no forest around Aqaba 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 July 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 Aqaba
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Beersheba192.9 km
Israel
- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 47
- Tabuk197.1 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 94
- Rafaḩ210.1 km
Palestinian Territory
- Tree cover
- 0%
- Air quality
- 88
- Arīsh212.9 km
Egypt
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 51
- Hebron222.8 km
Palestinian Territory
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 33
- Gaza225.6 km
Palestinian Territory
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 54
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Aqaba right now?
The latest reading for Aqaba shows an AQI of 87 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 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 Aqaba today?
At AQI 87 (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 Aqaba been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Aqaba's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 41 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 97 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 Aqaba lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Aqaba 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 Aqaba?
Aqaba has an estimated 2,827 trees across the 10.28 km² of land measured — 1.1% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Aqaba need?
Aqaba needs roughly 74,268 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,634 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Aqaba'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 Aqaba; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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