City report · Beni Suweif, Egypt
Banī Suwayf Air quality today
Air quality in Banī Suwayf currently reads AQI 258 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 258
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 181.0
- tree cover
- 10.2%
- trees in this area
- 29.2K
- more trees needed
- 99.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Beni Suef, Qism Bani Sweif, Beni Suef, Beni Suef Governorate, 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 Suwayf · AQI 258 (Very unhealthy)
Banī Suwayf's tree count comes to 29,224 trees across 11.46 km² of land, 35 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 99,707 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Banī Suwayf today: AQI 258, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 145 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
181.0
PM10
709.7
NO₂
12.8
O₃
82.0
SO₂
8.0
CO
152.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Banī Suwayf's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 74 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 164 on Nov 9.
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Banī Suwayf: Critically low
10.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.46 km² of land.
Trees in this area
29,224
Target trees
128,931
More trees needed
99,707
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,194 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Banī Suwayf lost?
There was almost no forest around Banī Suwayf 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 Banī Suwayf right now?
The latest reading for Banī Suwayf shows an AQI of 258 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Banī Suwayf today?
At AQI 258 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Banī Suwayf been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Banī Suwayf's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 74 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 164 on Nov 9. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Banī Suwayf lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Banī Suwayf 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 Suwayf?
Banī Suwayf has an estimated 29,224 trees across the 11.46 km² of land measured — 10.2% tree cover, 35 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Banī Suwayf need?
Banī Suwayf needs roughly 99,707 more trees to close a 35-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,194 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Banī Suwayf'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 Beni Suef; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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