Kyiv
2 km around Old Kyiv
Air quality now
AQI 66
42.3%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
Europe · air quality report · 42 cities
Right now the 42 cities Airleaf measures in Ukraine average AQI 50 (good). The worst air is in Ivano-Frankivsk, at AQI 80, and the cleanest in Dnipro, at AQI 14.
At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 53 across 3 cities. 2% of the 42 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 52% 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.
Ukraine · average AQI 50
2 km around Old Kyiv
Air quality now
AQI 66
42.3%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
2 km around Osnovianskyi district
Air quality now
AQI 55
27.7%
tree cover
7.2K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Centre
Air quality now
AQI 34
29.7%
tree cover
634 more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Shevchenkivskyi district
Air quality now
AQI 14
33.0%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
2 km around Kyivs'kyi district
Air quality now
AQI 78
51.1%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
2 km around Halytskyi District
Air quality now
AQI 58
39.5%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
2 km around Voznesenivskyi district
Air quality now
AQI 117
40.6%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
2 km around Sotsmisto
Air quality now
AQI 81
47.3%
tree cover
Healthy tree cover
Across the country
2% of the 42 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 52% have Good air. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
42 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 42 of 42 cities measured so far in Ukraine.
Excludes barren and desert sites
Against everywhere else
Right now the cities of Ukraine average cleaner air than 56% of the 171 countries Airleaf has enough cities to average, and more tree cover than 89%.
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Deforestation · 2001–2025
Since 2001, Ukraine has lost about 1.4 million hectares of forest (about 14,000 km²): 13% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 19,500 hectares (1.4%) 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 | 361 ha | 28,300 ha | 28,600 ha |
| 2002 | 433 ha | 26,300 ha | 26,700 ha |
| 2003 | 386 ha | 38,000 ha | 38,400 ha |
| 2004 | 570 ha | 48,400 ha | 49,000 ha |
| 2005 | 392 ha | 36,000 ha | 36,400 ha |
| 2006 | 563 ha | 41,200 ha | 41,700 ha |
| 2007 | 936 ha | 63,200 ha | 64,100 ha |
| 2008 | 1,200 ha | 51,100 ha | 52,300 ha |
| 2009 | 837 ha | 46,900 ha | 47,700 ha |
| 2010 | 658 ha | 51,600 ha | 52,200 ha |
| 2011 | 732 ha | 59,100 ha | 59,800 ha |
| 2012 | 798 ha | 54,600 ha | 55,400 ha |
| 2013 | 381 ha | 37,100 ha | 37,400 ha |
| 2014 | 442 ha | 46,500 ha | 47,000 ha |
| 2015 | 587 ha | 47,900 ha | 48,500 ha |
| 2016 | 1,630 ha | 104,000 ha | 105,000 ha |
| 2017 | 1,550 ha | 83,200 ha | 84,700 ha |
| 2018 | 1,290 ha | 71,800 ha | 73,100 ha |
| 2019 | 753 ha | 43,600 ha | 44,400 ha |
| 2020 | 996 ha | 76,900 ha | 77,900 ha |
| 2021 | 923 ha | 64,700 ha | 65,600 ha |
| 2022 | 651 ha | 46,600 ha | 47,300 ha |
| 2023 | 649 ha | 65,000 ha | 65,700 ha |
| 2024 | 742 ha | 79,000 ha | 79,700 ha |
| 2025 | 986 ha | 70,800 ha | 71,800 ha |
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 66,000 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 77,100 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2016, when about 105,000 hectares of forest were lost.
Also: farms, pasture and plantations, towns and roads, storms, floods and other natural causes, mining and energy.
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
17.3% of Ukraine was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 7.3B trees across 7.3M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Right now the 42 cities Airleaf measures in Ukraine average AQI 50 (good). The worst air is in Ivano-Frankivsk, at AQI 80, and the cleanest in Dnipro, at AQI 14. At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 53 across 3 cities. 2% of the 42 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 52% have Good air.
Ivano-Frankivsk, at AQI 80 (Moderate) on the US EPA index. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Dnipro, at AQI 14 (Good). Both lists rank current readings, from ground stations wherever Ukraine has at least three cities with one.
It depends on the city. 22 cities are Good, 19 cities are Moderate, 1 city is Unhealthy for sensitive groups. At the national average of AQI 50: Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
About 1.4 million ha from 2001 to 2025, 13% of the forest it had in 2000, from the University of Maryland's yearly satellite maps of forest loss. 19,500 ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
Makiyivka, with 62.0% 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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