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Ciudad Benito Juárez Air quality today
Air quality in Ciudad Benito Juárez currently reads AQI 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 106
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 37.7
- tree cover
- 20.1%
- trees in this area
- 63.1K
- more trees needed
- 46.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Centro de Benito Juárez, Cdad. Benito Juárez, N.L., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 15, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ciudad Benito Juárez · AQI 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Ciudad Benito Juárez's tree count comes to 63,146 trees across 12.57 km², 15 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 46,810 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ciudad Benito Juárez today: AQI 106, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Residencial Bosquencinos, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 19.6 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
37.7
PM10
—
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Bosquencinos Sensor 01, BioLets
- 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 Ciudad Benito Juárez's daily AQI at 57 on average, from 46 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 81 on Nov 4.
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ciudad Benito Juárez: Critically low
20.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
63,146
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
46,810
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,030 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ciudad Benito Juárez lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Ciudad Benito Juárez has lost about 2,040 hectares of forest (about 2,900 football pitches): 31% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (over 99%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from October 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 4 km southeast of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 2,040 haabout 2,900 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 31%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 2,040 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 86 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 74 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2006, when about 144 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 54 ha | under 1 ha | 55 ha |
| 2002 | 61 ha | under 1 ha | 61 ha |
| 2003 | 78 ha | under 1 ha | 78 ha |
| 2004 | 99 ha | under 1 ha | 100 ha |
| 2005 | 83 ha | under 1 ha | 83 ha |
| 2006 | 144 ha | under 1 ha | 144 ha |
| 2007 | 139 ha | under 1 ha | 139 ha |
| 2008 | 135 ha | 1 ha | 136 ha |
| 2009 | 82 ha | under 1 ha | 82 ha |
| 2010 | 118 ha | 1 ha | 119 ha |
| 2011 | 98 ha | under 1 ha | 99 ha |
| 2012 | 42 ha | under 1 ha | 42 ha |
| 2013 | 12 ha | under 1 ha | 12 ha |
| 2014 | 46 ha | under 1 ha | 46 ha |
| 2015 | 42 ha | under 1 ha | 42 ha |
| 2016 | 62 ha | under 1 ha | 62 ha |
| 2017 | 52 ha | under 1 ha | 52 ha |
| 2018 | 110 ha | under 1 ha | 110 ha |
| 2019 | 79 ha | under 1 ha | 79 ha |
| 2020 | 69 ha | under 1 ha | 69 ha |
| 2021 | 107 ha | under 1 ha | 107 ha |
| 2022 | 73 ha | under 1 ha | 73 ha |
| 2023 | 90 ha | under 1 ha | 90 ha |
| 2024 | 74 ha | under 1 ha | 74 ha |
| 2025 | 88 ha | under 1 ha | 88 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Ciudad Benito Juárez?
- Towns and roadscleared for good83% · 1,690 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good10% · 212 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good6.6% · 135 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, 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
- 6,850 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 6,010 ha
- Overall change
- −846 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Ciudad Benito Juárez shrank from about 6,850 hectares to 6,010 hectares, a net loss of about 846 hectares (−12%). New forest grew on about 675 hectares, but 1,520 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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Questions about Ciudad Benito Juárez
What is the air quality (AQI) in Ciudad Benito Juárez right now?
The latest reading for Ciudad Benito Juárez shows an AQI of 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 10:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Residencial Bosquencinos, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 19.6 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ciudad Benito Juárez today?
At AQI 106 (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 Ciudad Benito Juárez been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ciudad Benito Juárez's daily AQI at 57 on average, from 46 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 81 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 Ciudad Benito Juárez lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Ciudad Benito Juárez has lost about 2,040 hectares of forest (about 2,900 football pitches): 31% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (over 99%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 86 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 74 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Ciudad Benito Juárez shrank from about 6,850 hectares to 6,010 hectares, a net loss of about 846 hectares (−12%). New forest grew on about 675 hectares, but 1,520 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Ciudad Benito Juárez?
Ciudad Benito Juárez has an estimated 63,146 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 20.1% tree cover, 15 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ciudad Benito Juárez need?
Ciudad Benito Juárez needs roughly 46,810 more trees to close a 15-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,030 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ciudad Benito Juárez's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Centro de Benito Juárez, 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 Centro de Benito Juárez; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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