City report · Khuzestan, Iran
Bandar-e Māhshahr Air quality today
Air quality in Bandar-e Māhshahr currently reads AQI 21 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 21
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.6
- tree cover
- 1.5%
- trees in this area
- 4.7K
- more trees needed
- 89.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bandar-e Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, Iran (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bandar-e Māhshahr · AQI 21 (Good)
Bandar-e Māhshahr's tree count comes to 4,712 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 89,535 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bandar-e Māhshahr today: AQI 21, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Kuwait City and Block 5, Kuwait
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.6
PM10
29.8
NO₂
3.1
O₃
113.0
SO₂
9.2
CO
218.0
- 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-e Māhshahr's daily AQI at 82 on average, from 65 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 128 on Nov 10.
Where Bandar-e Māhshahr stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bandar-e Māhshahr: Critically low
1.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
4,712
Target trees
94,247
More trees needed
89,535
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,970 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bandar-e Māhshahr lost?
There was almost no forest around Bandar-e Māhshahr 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 Bandar-e Māhshahr right now?
The latest reading for Bandar-e Māhshahr shows an AQI of 21 (Good), observed Nov 11, 12:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bandar-e Māhshahr today?
At AQI 21 (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-e Māhshahr been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bandar-e Māhshahr's daily AQI at 82 on average, from 65 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 128 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bandar-e Māhshahr lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bandar-e Māhshahr 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-e Māhshahr?
Bandar-e Māhshahr has an estimated 4,712 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.5% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bandar-e Māhshahr need?
Bandar-e Māhshahr needs roughly 89,535 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,970 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bandar-e Māhshahr'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 Bandar-e Mahshahr; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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