City report · Turkmenistan
Ashgabat Air quality today
Air quality in Ashgabat currently reads AQI 33 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 33
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.0
- tree cover
- 13.0%
- trees in this area
- 40.8K
- more trees needed
- 53.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bagtyyarlyk district, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ashgabat · AQI 33 (Good)
Ashgabat's tree count comes to 40,841 trees across 12.57 km², 17 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 53,407 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ashgabat today: AQI 33, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Ashgabat, 1 km away
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
6.0
PM10
—
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirNow
- 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 Ashgabat's daily AQI at 56 on average, from 27 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 87 on Nov 6.
Where Ashgabat stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ashgabat: Critically low
13.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
40,841
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
53,407
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,175 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ashgabat lost?
There was almost no forest around Ashgabat 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.
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. How it's measured
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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 15
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- 4%
- Air quality
- 16
- Neyshābūr196.5 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 14
- Sabzevar203.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 11
- Mashhad213.3 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
- 23
- Gonbad-e Kāvūs293.8 km
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- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 20
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Frequently asked
Questions about Ashgabat
What is the air quality (AQI) in Ashgabat right now?
The latest reading for Ashgabat shows an AQI of 33 (Good), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by the Ashgabat ground monitoring station, 1 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ashgabat 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 Ashgabat been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ashgabat's daily AQI at 56 on average, from 27 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 87 on Nov 6. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ashgabat lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ashgabat 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 Ashgabat?
Ashgabat has an estimated 40,841 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 13.0% tree cover, 17 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ashgabat need?
Ashgabat needs roughly 53,407 more trees to close a 17-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,175 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ashgabat's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Bagtyyarlyk district, 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 Bagtyyarlyk district; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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