City report · Khuzestan, Iran
Behbahān Air quality today
Air quality in Behbahān currently reads AQI 129 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 129
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 46.3
- tree cover
- 1.9%
- trees in this area
- 6.0K
- more trees needed
- 104K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Old Town, Behbahan, 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.
Behbahān · AQI 129 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Behbahān's tree count comes to 5,969 trees across 12.57 km², 33 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 103,987 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Behbahān today: AQI 129, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 07:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
46.3
PM10
65.7
NO₂
23.3
O₃
30.0
SO₂
5.9
CO
340.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Behbahān's daily AQI at 93 on average, from 78 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 130 on Nov 11.
Where Behbahān stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Behbahān: Critically low
1.9% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
5,969
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
103,987
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,288 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Behbahān lost?
There was almost no forest around Behbahān 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 July 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 Behbahān right now?
The latest reading for Behbahān shows an AQI of 129 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 07:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Behbahān today?
At AQI 129 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Behbahān been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Behbahān's daily AQI at 93 on average, from 78 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 130 on Nov 11. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Behbahān lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Behbahān 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 Behbahān?
Behbahān has an estimated 5,969 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.9% tree cover, 33 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Behbahān need?
Behbahān needs roughly 103,987 more trees to close a 33-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,288 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Behbahān'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 Town; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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