City report · Apulia, Italy
Bari Air quality today
Air quality in Bari currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 53
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.7
- tree cover
- 6.8%
- trees in this area
- 16.0K
- more trees needed
- 54.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Murat, Bari BA, Italy (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bari · AQI 53 (Moderate)
Bari's tree count comes to 15,958 trees across 9.39 km² of land, 23 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 54,445 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bari today: AQI 53, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 250 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 250 km, e.g. Naples and Podgorica
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
10.7
PM10
11.1
NO₂
7.1
O₃
61.0
SO₂
0.8
CO
144.0
- 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 Bari's daily AQI at 52 on average, from 35 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 76 on Nov 7.
Where Bari stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bari: Critically low
6.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.39 km² of land.
Trees in this area
15,958
Target trees
70,403
More trees needed
54,445
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,198 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bari lost?
There was very little forest around Bari in 2000, about 30 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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.
The worst year was 2022, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Bari?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good53% · under 1 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good5.9% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown35% · under 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 761 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 890 ha
- Overall change
- +129 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bari grew from about 761 hectares to 890 hectares, a net gain of about 129 hectares (+17%). New forest grew on about 138 hectares, while 9 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Bari right now?
The latest reading for Bari shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 250 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Bari today?
At AQI 53 (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 Bari been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bari's daily AQI at 52 on average, from 35 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 76 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bari lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Bari in 2000, about 30 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Bari grew from about 761 hectares to 890 hectares, a net gain of about 129 hectares (+17%). New forest grew on about 138 hectares, while 9 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Bari?
Bari has an estimated 15,958 trees across the 9.39 km² of land measured — 6.8% tree cover, 23 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bari need?
Bari needs roughly 54,445 more trees to close a 23-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,198 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bari'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 Murat; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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