City report · Chihuahua, Mexico
Ciudad Juárez Air quality today
Air quality in Ciudad Juárez currently reads AQI 71 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 71
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 19.8
- tree cover
- 1.5%
- trees in this area
- 4.7K
- more trees needed
- 89.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Melchor Ocampo, 32380 Juárez, Chih., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 21, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ciudad Juárez · AQI 71 (Moderate)
Ciudad Juárez's tree count comes to 4,712 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 89,535 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ciudad Juárez today: AQI 71, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 09:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Instituto de Ingeniería y Tecnología, 3.8 km away · median of 8 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
19.8
PM10
81.0
NO₂
32.5
O₃
5.9
SO₂
—
CO
578.5
Data: OpenAQ · AirNow, Sinaica Mexico
- 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 Ciudad Juárez's daily AQI at 35 on average, from 9 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 94 on Nov 10.
Where Ciudad Juárez stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ciudad Juárez: Critically low
1.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
4,712
Target trees
94,247
More trees needed
89,535
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,970 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ciudad Juárez lost?
There was almost no forest around Ciudad Juárez 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 September 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.
- Las Cruces72.3 km
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- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 3
- Cuauhtémoc370.6 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 29
- Albuquerque374.5 km
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- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 52
- Odessa387.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 16
- Ciudad Delicias404.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 51
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Ciudad Juárez right now?
The latest reading for Ciudad Juárez shows an AQI of 71 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 09:00 local time by 8 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Instituto de Ingeniería y Tecnología, 3.8 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ciudad Juárez today?
At AQI 71 (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 Ciudad Juárez been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ciudad Juárez's daily AQI at 35 on average, from 9 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 94 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 Ciudad Juárez lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ciudad Juárez 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 Ciudad Juárez?
Ciudad Juárez has an estimated 4,712 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.5% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ciudad Juárez need?
Ciudad Juárez needs roughly 89,535 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,970 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ciudad Juárez's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Melchor Ocampo, 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 Melchor Ocampo; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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