City report · Aswan, Egypt
Aswān Air quality today
Air quality in Aswān currently reads AQI 200 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 200
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 137.8
- tree cover
- 4.5%
- trees in this area
- 11.9K
- more trees needed
- 94.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Aswan, Aswan 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.
Aswān · AQI 200 (Unhealthy)
Aswān's tree count comes to 11,918 trees across 10.6 km² of land, 36 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 94,017 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Aswān today: AQI 200, Unhealthy
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
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
137.8
PM10
570.0
NO₂
2.2
O₃
72.0
SO₂
2.9
CO
126.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Aswān's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 85 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 200 on Nov 11.
Where Aswān stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Aswān: Critically low
4.5% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.6 km² of land.
Trees in this area
11,918
Target trees
105,935
More trees needed
94,017
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,068 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Aswān lost?
There was almost no forest around Aswān 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.
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 Aswān right now?
The latest reading for Aswān shows an AQI of 200 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Aswān today?
At AQI 200 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Aswān been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Aswān's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 85 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 200 on Nov 11. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Aswān lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Aswān 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 Aswān?
Aswān has an estimated 11,918 trees across the 10.6 km² of land measured — 4.5% tree cover, 36 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Aswān need?
Aswān needs roughly 94,017 more trees to close a 36-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,068 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Aswān'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 Aswan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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