Reykjavík
2 km around Háaleiti og Bústaðir
Air quality now
AQI 27
25.0%
tree cover
14.3K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Europe · air quality report · 3 cities
Iceland air quality today The AQI right now, city by city
Right now the 3 cities Airleaf measures in Iceland average AQI 14 (good). The worst air is in Reykjavík, at AQI 27, and the cleanest in Akureyri, at AQI 7.
None of the 3 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 100% have Good air.
Average right now
AQI 14
Good
US EPA index, across 3 cities
- cities measured
- 3
- worst air: Reykjavík
- 27
- cleanest air: Akureyri
- 7
- average tree cover
- 15.5%
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Iceland · average AQI 14
Air quality right now in all 3 cities in Iceland
Good
Reykjanesbær
2 km around 230 Keflavík
Air quality now
AQI 7
2.4%
tree cover
63.0K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Akureyri
2 km around City Center
Air quality now
AQI 7
19.1%
tree cover
19.3K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Across the country
How clean is the air across Iceland today?
None of the 3 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 100% have Good air. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
3 measured cities
- Good3 (100%)
Every measured city, including model estimates where no ground station is near.
Against everywhere else
How does Iceland compare with other countries?
Right now the cities of Iceland average cleaner air than 99% of the 171 countries Airleaf has enough cities to average, and more tree cover than 30%.
Cleaner air than…
- Iceland
- Beats 99%
More tree cover than…
- Iceland
- Beats 30%
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Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Iceland lost?
There was almost no forest in Iceland 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.
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. How it's measured
Iceland as a whole
0.6% of Iceland was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 3.0B trees across 3.0M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Frequently asked
Air quality in Iceland: your questions answered
What is the air quality in Iceland today?
Right now the 3 cities Airleaf measures in Iceland average AQI 14 (good). The worst air is in Reykjavík, at AQI 27, and the cleanest in Akureyri, at AQI 7. None of the 3 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 100% have Good air.
Which city in Iceland has the worst air right now?
Reykjavík, at AQI 27 (Good) on the US EPA index. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Which city in Iceland has the cleanest air right now?
Akureyri, at AQI 7 (Good). Both lists rank current readings, from ground stations wherever Iceland has at least three cities with one.
Is the air in Iceland safe to breathe today?
It depends on the city. 3 cities are Good. At the national average of AQI 14: Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
How does Airleaf measure air quality in Iceland?
Each city's reading is the US EPA air quality index, from ground monitoring stations where one has reported recently nearby, and from the CAMS atmospheric model elsewhere; each city's report says which. Tree cover is measured over the same 2 km radius in every city, so the cities compare like for like.
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