City report · River Nile, Sudan
Atbara Air quality today
Air quality in Atbara currently reads AQI 163 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 163
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 77.3
- tree cover
- 1.4%
- trees in this area
- 4.4K
- more trees needed
- 121K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Atbara, Sudan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Atbara · AQI 163 (Unhealthy)
Atbara's tree count comes to 4,398 trees across 12.57 km², 39 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 121,265 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Atbara today: AQI 163, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 06:00 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
77.3
PM10
400.5
NO₂
0.4
O₃
68.0
SO₂
1.5
CO
129.0
- 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 Atbara's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 91 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 190 on Nov 7.
Where Atbara stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Atbara: Critically low
1.4% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
4,398
Target trees
125,663
More trees needed
121,265
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,668 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Atbara lost?
There was almost no forest around Atbara 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Omdurman279.6 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 124
- Khartoum284.9 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 124
- Kassala358.9 km
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- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 59
- Wad Medani370.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 85
- Al Manāqil398.8 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 99
- Port Sudan401.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 53
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Atbara right now?
The latest reading for Atbara shows an AQI of 163 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 06:00 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 Atbara today?
At AQI 163 (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 Atbara been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Atbara's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 91 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 190 on Nov 7. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Atbara lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Atbara 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 Atbara?
Atbara has an estimated 4,398 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.4% tree cover, 39 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Atbara need?
Atbara needs roughly 121,265 more trees to close a 39-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,668 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Atbara'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 Atbara; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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