City report · Baja California Sur, Mexico
Cabo San Lucas Air quality today
Air quality in Cabo San Lucas currently reads AQI 21 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 21
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.9
- tree cover
- 4.4%
- trees in this area
- 11.8K
- more trees needed
- 68.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Juárez, Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Cabo San Lucas · AQI 21 (Good)
Cabo San Lucas's tree count comes to 11,832 trees across 10.76 km² of land, 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 68,844 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Cabo San Lucas today: AQI 21, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 13:00 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
3.9
PM10
5.7
NO₂
0.8
O₃
99.0
SO₂
0.8
CO
142.0
- 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 Cabo San Lucas's daily AQI at 28 on average, from 22 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 47 on Nov 4.
Where Cabo San Lucas stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Cabo San Lucas: Critically low
4.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.76 km² of land.
Trees in this area
11,832
Target trees
80,676
More trees needed
68,844
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,515 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Cabo San Lucas lost?
There was almost no forest around Cabo San Lucas 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 November 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Cabo San Lucas
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- San José del Cabo28.0 km
Mexico
- Tree cover
- 18%
- Air quality
- 12
- La Paz145.0 km
Mexico
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 47
- Culiacán332.8 km
Mexico
- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 27
- Los Mochis335.5 km
Mexico
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 29
- Mazatlán359.3 km
Mexico
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 36
- Navojoa467.2 km
Mexico
- Tree cover
- 12%
- Air quality
- 18
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Cabo San Lucas right now?
The latest reading for Cabo San Lucas shows an AQI of 21 (Good), observed Nov 10, 13:00 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 Cabo San Lucas today?
At AQI 21 (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 Cabo San Lucas been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Cabo San Lucas's daily AQI at 28 on average, from 22 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 47 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Cabo San Lucas lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Cabo San Lucas 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 Cabo San Lucas?
Cabo San Lucas has an estimated 11,832 trees across the 10.76 km² of land measured — 4.4% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Cabo San Lucas need?
Cabo San Lucas needs roughly 68,844 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,515 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Cabo San Lucas'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 Juárez; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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