City report · Baghdad, Iraq
Baghdad Air quality today
Air quality in Baghdad currently reads AQI 75 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 75
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 22.2
- tree cover
- 2.3%
- trees in this area
- 6.9K
- more trees needed
- 82.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shaikh Omar, Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Baghdad · AQI 75 (Moderate)
Baghdad's tree count comes to 6,857 trees across 11.93 km² of land, 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 82,584 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Baghdad today: AQI 75, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 18:57 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Hydro-C Demo, 3 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
22.2
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · Clarity
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Baghdad's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 52 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 7.
Where Baghdad stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Baghdad: Critically low
2.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.93 km² of land.
Trees in this area
6,857
Target trees
89,441
More trees needed
82,584
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,817 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Baghdad lost?
There was almost no forest around Baghdad 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.
2018: satellite photo from September 2018 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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- Air quality
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- Baqubah49.7 km
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- Air quality
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- 50.7 km
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- Air quality
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- Al Fallūjah57.1 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
- 58
- Al-Musayab63.3 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Baghdad right now?
The latest reading for Baghdad shows an AQI of 75 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 18:57 local time by the Hydro-C Demo ground monitoring station, 3 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Baghdad today?
At AQI 75 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Baghdad been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Baghdad's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 52 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 7. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Baghdad lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Baghdad 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 Baghdad?
Baghdad has an estimated 6,857 trees across the 11.93 km² of land measured — 2.3% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Baghdad need?
Baghdad needs roughly 82,584 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,817 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Baghdad's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Shaikh Omar, 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 Shaikh Omar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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