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Arequipa Air quality today
Air quality in Arequipa currently reads AQI 76 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 76
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 22.0
- tree cover
- 5.7%
- trees in this area
- 17.9K
- more trees needed
- 76.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Historical Centre of Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 15, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Arequipa · AQI 76 (Moderate)
Arequipa's tree count comes to 17,907 trees across 12.57 km², 24 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 76,341 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Arequipa today: AQI 76, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
22.0
PM10
55.2
NO₂
35.0
O₃
7.0
SO₂
4.8
CO
1378.0
- 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 Arequipa's daily AQI at 71 on average, from 58 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 118 on Nov 5.
Where Arequipa stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Arequipa: Critically low
5.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
17,907
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
76,341
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,680 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Arequipa lost?
There was almost no forest around Arequipa 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 April 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Arequipa right now?
The latest reading for Arequipa shows an AQI of 76 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Arequipa today?
At AQI 76 (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 Arequipa been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Arequipa's daily AQI at 71 on average, from 58 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 118 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Arequipa lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Arequipa 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 Arequipa?
Arequipa has an estimated 17,907 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 5.7% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Arequipa need?
Arequipa needs roughly 76,341 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,680 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Arequipa'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 Historical Centre of Arequipa; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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