Male
2 km around Machangolhi
Air quality now
AQI 42
8.5%
tree cover
10.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
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Maldives air quality today The AQI right now, city by city
Airleaf measures 1 city in the Maldives. Male reads AQI 42 right now.
- cities measured
- 1
- national forest cover
- 12.5%
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
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Air quality in Male right now
Good
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has the Maldives lost?
There was almost no forest in the Maldives 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
Maldives as a whole
12.5% of the Maldives was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 5.2M trees across 5.2K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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What is the air quality in the Maldives today?
Airleaf measures 1 city in the Maldives. Male reads AQI 42 right now.
How does Airleaf measure air quality in the Maldives?
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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