Amsterdam
2 km around Burgwallen Nieuwe Zijde
Air quality now
AQI 66
20.5%
tree cover
25.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Europe · air quality report · 25 cities
Right now the 25 cities Airleaf measures in The Netherlands average AQI 81 (moderate). The worst air is in Zwolle, at AQI 112, and the cleanest in Maastricht, at AQI 41.
At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 82 across 24 cities. 24% of the 25 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 4% have Good air.
Average right now
AQI 81
Moderate
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
The Netherlands · average AQI 81
2 km around Burgwallen Nieuwe Zijde
Air quality now
AQI 66
20.5%
tree cover
25.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Stadsdriehoek
Air quality now
AQI 76
25.9%
tree cover
11.4K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Neude Janskerkhof en Domplein
Air quality now
AQI 72
27.0%
tree cover
9.4K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Grote Markt
Air quality now
AQI 79
31.0%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
2 km around Binnenstad
Air quality now
AQI 64
27.4%
tree cover
8.1K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Kortenbos
Air quality now
AQI 78
21.7%
tree cover
26.0K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Binnenstad
Air quality now
AQI 70
26.2%
tree cover
11.9K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around City
Air quality now
AQI 75
25.0%
tree cover
15.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Across the country
24% of the 25 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 4% have Good air. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
25 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 25 of 25 cities measured so far in The Netherlands.
Excludes barren and desert sites
Against everywhere else
Right now the cities of The Netherlands average cleaner air than 12% of the 171 countries Airleaf has enough cities to average, and more tree cover than 62%.
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Deforestation · 2001–2025
Since 2001, The Netherlands has lost about 33,800 hectares of forest (about 47,000 football pitches): 5.7% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 3,940 hectares (12%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
Hectares of forest lost each year
| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 106 ha | 624 ha | 730 ha |
| 2002 | 85 ha | 743 ha | 828 ha |
| 2003 | 63 ha | 249 ha | 312 ha |
| 2004 | 118 ha | 1,170 ha | 1,290 ha |
| 2005 | 180 ha | 1,290 ha | 1,470 ha |
| 2006 | 144 ha | 1,310 ha | 1,450 ha |
| 2007 | 178 ha | 1,430 ha | 1,610 ha |
| 2008 | 128 ha | 983 ha | 1,110 ha |
| 2009 | 218 ha | 1,330 ha | 1,550 ha |
| 2010 | 307 ha | 3,060 ha | 3,370 ha |
| 2011 | 170 ha | 991 ha | 1,160 ha |
| 2012 | 121 ha | 816 ha | 937 ha |
| 2013 | 62 ha | 450 ha | 512 ha |
| 2014 | 107 ha | 765 ha | 872 ha |
| 2015 | 159 ha | 729 ha | 888 ha |
| 2016 | 281 ha | 1,140 ha | 1,420 ha |
| 2017 | 236 ha | 1,090 ha | 1,320 ha |
| 2018 | 186 ha | 1,110 ha | 1,290 ha |
| 2019 | 239 ha | 2,270 ha | 2,510 ha |
| 2020 | 202 ha | 1,730 ha | 1,940 ha |
| 2021 | 235 ha | 2,170 ha | 2,410 ha |
| 2022 | 89 ha | 1,080 ha | 1,170 ha |
| 2023 | 135 ha | 1,410 ha | 1,550 ha |
| 2024 | 139 ha | 1,360 ha | 1,500 ha |
| 2025 | 48 ha | 580 ha | 628 ha |
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 1,450 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 1,700 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2010, when about 3,370 hectares of forest were lost.
Also: wildfires, mining and energy, 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.
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
11.0% of The Netherlands was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 641.2M trees across 641K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Right now the 25 cities Airleaf measures in The Netherlands average AQI 81 (moderate). The worst air is in Zwolle, at AQI 112, and the cleanest in Maastricht, at AQI 41. At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 82 across 24 cities. 24% of the 25 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 4% have Good air.
Zwolle, at AQI 112 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) on the US EPA index. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Maastricht, at AQI 41 (Good). Both lists rank current readings, from ground stations wherever The Netherlands has at least three cities with one.
It depends on the city. 1 city is Good, 18 cities are Moderate, 6 cities are Unhealthy for sensitive groups. At the national average of AQI 81: Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
About 33,800 ha from 2001 to 2025, 6% of the forest it had in 2000, from the University of Maryland's yearly satellite maps of forest loss. 3,940 ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
Amersfoort, with 35.6% 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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