Mexico City
2 km around La Merced
Air quality now
AQI 75
7.2%
tree cover
71.6K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
North America · air quality report · 114 cities
Right now the 114 cities Airleaf measures in Mexico average AQI 50 (good). The worst air is in Monterrey, at AQI 96, and the cleanest in Reynosa, at AQI 20.
At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 68 across 43 cities. None of the 114 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 46% have Good air.
Average right now
AQI 50
Good
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Mexico · average AQI 50
2 km around La Merced
Air quality now
AQI 75
7.2%
tree cover
71.6K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around 9 Section
Air quality now
AQI 66
5.4%
tree cover
77.3K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Historic Centre of Puebla
Air quality now
AQI 47
7.1%
tree cover
71.9K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Centro
Air quality now
AQI 63
8.8%
tree cover
66.6K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Centro
Air quality now
AQI 46
4.4%
tree cover
80.4K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Albarrada
Air quality now
AQI 77
9.2%
tree cover
65.3K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Manzana 015
Air quality now
AQI 75
18.1%
tree cover
37.4K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Melchor Ocampo
Air quality now
AQI 69
1.5%
tree cover
89.5K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Across the country
None of the 114 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 46% have Good air. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
114 measured cities
Every measured city, including model estimates where no ground station is near.
In aggregate
Every figure below is read the same way over the same 2 km area per city, so they add up and compare like for like. Averaged across the 114 of 114 cities measured so far in Mexico.
Excludes barren and desert sites
Against everywhere else
Right now the cities of Mexico average cleaner air than 46% of the 171 countries Airleaf has enough cities to average, and more tree cover than 29%.
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Deforestation · 2001–2025
Since 2001, Mexico has lost about 5.46 million hectares of forest (about 55,000 km²): 10% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (80%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
Hectares of forest lost each year
| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 142,000 ha | 17,100 ha | 159,000 ha |
| 2002 | 140,000 ha | 19,400 ha | 159,000 ha |
| 2003 | 137,000 ha | 16,400 ha | 153,000 ha |
| 2004 | 154,000 ha | 16,800 ha | 170,000 ha |
| 2005 | 188,000 ha | 19,100 ha | 208,000 ha |
| 2006 | 138,000 ha | 42,000 ha | 180,000 ha |
| 2007 | 202,000 ha | 17,700 ha | 219,000 ha |
| 2008 | 160,000 ha | 25,300 ha | 185,000 ha |
| 2009 | 236,000 ha | 45,700 ha | 282,000 ha |
| 2010 | 148,000 ha | 19,000 ha | 167,000 ha |
| 2011 | 148,000 ha | 39,100 ha | 187,000 ha |
| 2012 | 150,000 ha | 25,400 ha | 175,000 ha |
| 2013 | 178,000 ha | 41,600 ha | 220,000 ha |
| 2014 | 151,000 ha | 20,800 ha | 171,000 ha |
| 2015 | 161,000 ha | 37,100 ha | 198,000 ha |
| 2016 | 231,000 ha | 44,100 ha | 275,000 ha |
| 2017 | 246,000 ha | 54,000 ha | 300,000 ha |
| 2018 | 224,000 ha | 44,400 ha | 268,000 ha |
| 2019 | 259,000 ha | 69,700 ha | 329,000 ha |
| 2020 | 224,000 ha | 76,600 ha | 300,000 ha |
| 2021 | 141,000 ha | 49,000 ha | 190,000 ha |
| 2022 | 135,000 ha | 44,400 ha | 180,000 ha |
| 2023 | 183,000 ha | 45,200 ha | 228,000 ha |
| 2024 | 179,000 ha | 153,000 ha | 332,000 ha |
| 2025 | 135,000 ha | 90,800 ha | 225,000 ha |
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 231,000 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 294,000 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2024, when about 332,000 hectares of forest were lost.
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, logging, towns and roads, mining and energy, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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
34.2% of Mexico was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. That already clears the benchmark — the city reports above show where cover is still thin locally. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Right now the 114 cities Airleaf measures in Mexico average AQI 50 (good). The worst air is in Monterrey, at AQI 96, and the cleanest in Reynosa, at AQI 20. At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 68 across 43 cities. None of the 114 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 46% have Good air.
Monterrey, at AQI 96 (Moderate) on the US EPA index. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Reynosa, at AQI 20 (Good). Both lists rank current readings, from ground stations wherever Mexico has at least three cities with one.
It depends on the city. 53 cities are Good, 61 cities are Moderate. At the national average of AQI 50: Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
About 5.46 million ha from 2001 to 2025, 10% of the forest it had in 2000, from the University of Maryland's yearly satellite maps of forest loss. 4.39 million ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
Teziutlan, with 52.6% tree cover within 2 km of its center, measured from Sentinel-2 satellite images.
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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