City report · İzmir Province, Turkey
Çiğli Air quality today
Air quality in Çiğli currently reads AQI 113 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 113
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 40.2
- tree cover
- 8.3%
- trees in this area
- 26.1K
- more trees needed
- 83.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around İzmir, Türkiye (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Çiğli · AQI 113 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Çiğli's tree count comes to 26,075 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 83,881 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Çiğli today: AQI 113, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Izmir (Guzelyali), Turkey, 11.2 km away · median of 6 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
40.2
PM10
52.8
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Turkey National Air Quality Monitoring Network (Ulusal Hava Kalitesi İzleme Ağı)
- 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 Çiğli's daily AQI at 54 on average, from 42 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 128 on Nov 10.
Where Çiğli stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Çiğli: Critically low
8.3% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
26,075
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
83,881
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,845 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Çiğli lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Çiğli has lost about 528 hectares of forest (about 740 football pitches): 33% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to wildfires, so much of it can grow back. About 2 hectares (under 1%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km northeast of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 528 haabout 740 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 33%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 2 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is speeding up: about 77 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 7 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2024, when about 328 hectares of forest were lost, mostly to wildfires.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | 19 ha | 19 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | 9 ha | 9 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 2 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 2 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | 37 ha | 37 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | 13 ha | 13 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | 9 ha | 9 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | 14 ha | 14 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | 12 ha | 12 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | 5 ha | 5 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | 12 ha | 12 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | 5 ha | 5 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | 8 ha | 8 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | 12 ha | 12 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 2 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | 328 ha | 328 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | 36 ha | 36 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Çiğli?
- Wildfirescan grow back70% · 369 ha
- Loggingcan grow back29% · 154 ha
Also: mining and energy, farms, pasture and plantations, towns and roads, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 3,210 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 3,370 ha
- Overall change
- +157 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Çiğli grew from about 3,210 hectares to 3,370 hectares, a net gain of about 157 hectares (+4.9%). New forest grew on about 194 hectares, while 37 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Çiğli right now?
The latest reading for Çiğli shows an AQI of 113 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by 6 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Izmir (Guzelyali), Turkey, 11.2 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Çiğli today?
At AQI 113 (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 Çiğli been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Çiğli's daily AQI at 54 on average, from 42 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 128 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Çiğli lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Çiğli has lost about 528 hectares of forest (about 740 football pitches): 33% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to wildfires, so much of it can grow back. About 2 hectares (under 1%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Forest loss is speeding up: about 77 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 7 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Çiğli grew from about 3,210 hectares to 3,370 hectares, a net gain of about 157 hectares (+4.9%). New forest grew on about 194 hectares, while 37 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Çiğli?
Çiğli has an estimated 26,075 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 8.3% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Çiğli need?
Çiğli needs roughly 83,881 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,845 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Çiğli's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near İzmir, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 İzmir; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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