City report · Benguela, Angola
Benguela Air quality today
Air quality in Benguela currently reads AQI 56 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 56
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 11.7
- tree cover
- 6.8%
- trees in this area
- 15.5K
- more trees needed
- 52.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Benguela, Angola (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 18, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Benguela · AQI 56 (Moderate)
Benguela's tree count comes to 15,488 trees across 9.11 km² of land, 23 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 52,842 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Benguela today: AQI 56, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
11.7
PM10
17.7
NO₂
4.2
O₃
45.0
SO₂
3.3
CO
130.0
- 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 Benguela's daily AQI at 59 on average, from 49 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 67 on Nov 5.
Where Benguela stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Benguela: Critically low
6.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.11 km² of land.
Trees in this area
15,488
Target trees
68,330
More trees needed
52,842
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,163 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Benguela lost?
There was almost no forest around Benguela 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
- 49
- Balombo150.7 km
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- 16%
- Air quality
- 30
- Sumbe159.8 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
- 40
- Gabela219.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Benguela right now?
The latest reading for Benguela shows an AQI of 56 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Benguela today?
At AQI 56 (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 Benguela been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Benguela's daily AQI at 59 on average, from 49 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 67 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Benguela lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Benguela 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 Benguela?
Benguela has an estimated 15,488 trees across the 9.11 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 Benguela need?
Benguela needs roughly 52,842 more trees to close a 23-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,163 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Benguela'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 Benguela; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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