City report · Asyut, Egypt
Assiut Air quality today
Air quality in Assiut currently reads AQI 206 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
AQI 206
Air quality right now
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 139.7
- tree cover
- 7.5%
- trees in this area
- 21.5K
- more trees needed
- 108K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Asyut, Al Hamraa Ath Thaneyah, El Fateh, Assiut Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Assiut · AQI 206 (Very unhealthy)
Assiut's tree count comes to 21,512 trees across 11.48 km² of land, 38 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 107,560 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Assiut today: AQI 206, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
139.7
PM10
987.2
NO₂
2.8
O₃
106.0
SO₂
3.4
CO
126.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Assiut's daily AQI at 174 on average, from 151 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 223 on Nov 9.
Where Assiut stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Assiut: Critically low
7.5% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.48 km² of land.
Trees in this area
21,512
Target trees
129,072
More trees needed
107,560
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,366 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Assiut lost?
There was almost no forest around Assiut 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 August 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 Assiut right now?
The latest reading for Assiut shows an AQI of 206 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Assiut today?
At AQI 206 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Assiut been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Assiut's daily AQI at 174 on average, from 151 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 223 on Nov 9. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Assiut lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Assiut 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 Assiut?
Assiut has an estimated 21,512 trees across the 11.48 km² of land measured — 7.5% tree cover, 38 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Assiut need?
Assiut needs roughly 107,560 more trees to close a 38-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,366 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Assiut'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 Asyut; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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