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Asmara Air quality today
Air quality in Asmara currently reads AQI 18 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 18
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 2.6
- tree cover
- 4.3%
- trees in this area
- 13.5K
- more trees needed
- 80.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Asmara, Eritrea (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Asmara · AQI 18 (Good)
Asmara's tree count comes to 13,509 trees across 12.57 km², 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 80,739 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Asmara today: AQI 18, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
2.6
PM10
3.4
NO₂
0.1
O₃
69.0
SO₂
0.5
CO
178.0
- 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 Asmara's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 18 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 63 on Nov 5.
Where Asmara stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Asmara: Critically low
4.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
13,509
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
80,739
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,776 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Asmara lost?
There was almost no forest around Asmara 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 January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,400 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,420 ha
- Overall change
- +21 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Asmara stayed about the same size, at about 1,420 hectares: new forest grew on about 23 hectares, and about 2 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 Asmara right now?
The latest reading for Asmara shows an AQI of 18 (Good), observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Asmara today?
At AQI 18 (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 Asmara been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Asmara's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 18 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 63 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 Asmara lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Asmara 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Asmara stayed about the same size, at about 1,420 hectares: new forest grew on about 23 hectares, and about 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Asmara?
Asmara has an estimated 13,509 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 4.3% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Asmara need?
Asmara needs roughly 80,739 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,776 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Asmara'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 Asmara; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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