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Bandar Abbas Air quality today
Air quality in Bandar Abbas currently reads AQI 39 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 39
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.6
- tree cover
- 2.0%
- trees in this area
- 5.3K
- more trees needed
- 73.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Nzar Abad, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bandar Abbas · AQI 39 (Good)
Bandar Abbas's tree count comes to 5,253 trees across 10.51 km² of land, 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 73,538 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bandar Abbas today: AQI 39, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 08:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Ajman and Dubai
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
6.6
PM10
59.8
NO₂
19.0
O₃
61.0
SO₂
5.5
CO
247.0
- 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 Bandar Abbas's daily AQI at 102 on average, from 85 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 143 on Nov 9.
Where Bandar Abbas stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bandar Abbas: Critically low
2.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.51 km² of land.
Trees in this area
5,253
Target trees
78,791
More trees needed
73,538
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,618 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bandar Abbas lost?
There was almost no forest around Bandar Abbas 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 December 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Bandar Abbas
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Ras Al Khaimah158.9 km
United Arab Emirates
- Tree cover
- 22%
- Air quality
- 40
- Ajman213.9 km
United Arab Emirates
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 27
- Jīroft219.3 km
Iran
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 47
- Sharjah223.4 km
United Arab Emirates
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 27
- Fujairah230.3 km
United Arab Emirates
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 49
- Dubai234.1 km
United Arab Emirates
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 20
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Bandar Abbas right now?
The latest reading for Bandar Abbas shows an AQI of 39 (Good), observed Nov 11, 08:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bandar Abbas today?
At AQI 39 (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 Bandar Abbas been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bandar Abbas's daily AQI at 102 on average, from 85 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 143 on Nov 9. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bandar Abbas lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bandar Abbas 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 Bandar Abbas?
Bandar Abbas has an estimated 5,253 trees across the 10.51 km² of land measured — 2.0% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bandar Abbas need?
Bandar Abbas needs roughly 73,538 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,618 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bandar Abbas'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 Nzar Abad; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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