City report · Minya, Egypt
Banī Mazār Air quality today
Air quality in Banī Mazār currently reads AQI 794 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 794
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 478.1
- tree cover
- 13.0%
- trees in this area
- 39.1K
- more trees needed
- 96.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bani Mazar, Al Minya, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Banī Mazār · AQI 794 (Hazardous)
Banī Mazār's tree count comes to 39,085 trees across 12.03 km² of land, 32 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 96,208 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Banī Mazār today: AQI 794, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 205 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
478.1
PM10
1482.7
NO₂
5.4
O₃
106.0
SO₂
6.3
CO
156.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Banī Mazār's daily AQI at 175 on average, from 129 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 268 on Nov 10.
Where Banī Mazār stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Banī Mazār: Critically low
13.0% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.03 km² of land.
Trees in this area
39,085
Target trees
135,293
More trees needed
96,208
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,117 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Banī Mazār lost?
There was almost no forest around Banī Mazār 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 September 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 Banī Mazār right now?
The latest reading for Banī Mazār shows an AQI of 794 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Banī Mazār today?
At AQI 794 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Banī Mazār been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Banī Mazār's daily AQI at 175 on average, from 129 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 268 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Banī Mazār lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Banī Mazār 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 Banī Mazār?
Banī Mazār has an estimated 39,085 trees across the 12.03 km² of land measured — 13.0% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Banī Mazār need?
Banī Mazār needs roughly 96,208 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,117 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Banī Mazār'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 Bani Mazar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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