City report · Salah ad Din, Iraq
Bayjī Air quality today
Air quality in Bayjī currently reads AQI 89 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 89
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 22.9
- tree cover
- 2.5%
- trees in this area
- 7.9K
- more trees needed
- 86.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Old Baiji, Baiji, Saladin Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Bayjī · AQI 89 (Moderate)
Bayjī's tree count comes to 7,854 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 86,394 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Bayjī today: AQI 89, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Sulaymaniyah and Baghdad
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
22.9
PM10
7.8
NO₂
11.8
O₃
51.0
SO₂
74.0
CO
167.0
- 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 Bayjī's daily AQI at 79 on average, from 52 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 176 on Nov 5.
Where Bayjī stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Bayjī: Critically low
2.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
7,854
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
86,394
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,901 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Bayjī lost?
There was almost no forest around Bayjī 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.
2018: satellite photo from June 2018 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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Questions about Bayjī
What is the air quality (AQI) in Bayjī right now?
The latest reading for Bayjī shows an AQI of 89 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 205 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 Bayjī today?
At AQI 89 (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 Bayjī been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Bayjī's daily AQI at 79 on average, from 52 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 176 on Nov 5. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Bayjī lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Bayjī 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 Bayjī?
Bayjī has an estimated 7,854 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.5% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Bayjī need?
Bayjī needs roughly 86,394 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,901 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Bayjī'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 Old Baiji; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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