City report · Libya
Benghazi Air quality today
Air quality in Benghazi currently reads AQI 42 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 42
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 7.7
- tree cover
- 0.9%
- trees in this area
- 2.1K
- more trees needed
- 69.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around المدينة القديمة, Benghazi, Libya (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Benghazi · AQI 42 (Good)
Benghazi's tree count comes to 2,138 trees across 9.5 km² of land, 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 69,114 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Benghazi today: AQI 42, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 09:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
7.7
PM10
13.2
NO₂
12.7
O₃
58.0
SO₂
2.0
CO
349.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Benghazi's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 29 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 47 on Nov 11.
Where Benghazi stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Benghazi: Critically low
0.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.5 km² of land.
Trees in this area
2,138
Target trees
71,252
More trees needed
69,114
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,521 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Benghazi lost?
There was almost no forest around Benghazi 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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Frequently asked
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Benghazi right now?
The latest reading for Benghazi shows an AQI of 42 (Good), observed Nov 11, 09:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Benghazi today?
At AQI 42 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Benghazi been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Benghazi's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 29 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 47 on Nov 11. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Benghazi lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Benghazi 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 Benghazi?
Benghazi has an estimated 2,138 trees across the 9.5 km² of land measured — 0.9% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Benghazi need?
Benghazi needs roughly 69,114 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,521 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Benghazi'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 المدينة القديمة; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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