Hanoi
2 km around Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam
Air quality now
AQI 118
18.7%
tree cover
50.2K more trees would reach 35% tree cover
Asia · air quality report · 114 cities
Right now the 114 cities Airleaf measures in Vietnam average AQI 59 (moderate). The worst air is in Thuận Thanh, at AQI 132, and the cleanest in Huế, at AQI 33.
At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 92 across 20 cities. 8% of the 114 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 33% have Good air.
Average right now
AQI 59
Moderate
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Vietnam · average AQI 59
2 km around Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam
Air quality now
AQI 118
18.7%
tree cover
50.2K more trees would reach 35% tree cover
2 km around Tay Thanh
Air quality now
AQI 84
9.7%
tree cover
63.8K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Hong Bang
Air quality now
AQI 81
19.4%
tree cover
27.5K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Ninh Kieu
Air quality now
AQI 70
22.0%
tree cover
19.6K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Thuan Hoa
Air quality now
AQI 33
21.2%
tree cover
26.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Hai Chau
Air quality now
AQI 63
10.3%
tree cover
53.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Tran Bien
Air quality now
AQI 84
21.2%
tree cover
23.6K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Hac Thanh
Air quality now
AQI 38
20.5%
tree cover
29.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Across the country
8% of the 114 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 33% have Good air. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
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 Vietnam.
Excludes barren and desert sites
Against everywhere else
Right now the cities of Vietnam average cleaner air than 38% of the 171 countries Airleaf has enough cities to average, and more tree cover than 79%.
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Deforestation · 2001–2025
Since 2001, Vietnam has lost about 3.85 million hectares of forest (about 39,000 km²): 23% of the forest it had in 2000. The biggest cause was logging (47%), after which forest can grow back. About 1.41 million hectares (37%) 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 | 26,200 ha | 21,400 ha | 47,600 ha |
| 2002 | 35,200 ha | 14,700 ha | 49,900 ha |
| 2003 | 22,300 ha | 21,200 ha | 43,400 ha |
| 2004 | 41,500 ha | 32,600 ha | 74,100 ha |
| 2005 | 57,100 ha | 45,600 ha | 103,000 ha |
| 2006 | 41,600 ha | 38,000 ha | 79,600 ha |
| 2007 | 36,500 ha | 44,400 ha | 80,900 ha |
| 2008 | 74,400 ha | 35,600 ha | 110,000 ha |
| 2009 | 72,300 ha | 66,000 ha | 138,000 ha |
| 2010 | 116,000 ha | 60,300 ha | 176,000 ha |
| 2011 | 79,500 ha | 52,700 ha | 132,000 ha |
| 2012 | 90,600 ha | 92,500 ha | 183,000 ha |
| 2013 | 34,600 ha | 99,400 ha | 134,000 ha |
| 2014 | 67,300 ha | 153,000 ha | 220,000 ha |
| 2015 | 55,800 ha | 165,000 ha | 220,000 ha |
| 2016 | 98,600 ha | 259,000 ha | 357,000 ha |
| 2017 | 82,000 ha | 209,000 ha | 291,000 ha |
| 2018 | 57,100 ha | 171,000 ha | 228,000 ha |
| 2019 | 57,100 ha | 163,000 ha | 221,000 ha |
| 2020 | 57,000 ha | 154,000 ha | 211,000 ha |
| 2021 | 46,000 ha | 150,000 ha | 196,000 ha |
| 2022 | 44,300 ha | 122,000 ha | 167,000 ha |
| 2023 | 40,700 ha | 97,100 ha | 138,000 ha |
| 2024 | 41,600 ha | 88,400 ha | 130,000 ha |
| 2025 | 39,100 ha | 81,500 ha | 121,000 ha |
Forest loss is slowing down: about 150,000 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 262,000 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2016, when about 357,000 hectares of forest were lost.
Also: mining and energy, towns and roads, storms, floods and other natural causes, wildfires, 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
47.1% of Vietnam 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 Vietnam average AQI 59 (moderate). The worst air is in Thuận Thanh, at AQI 132, and the cleanest in Huế, at AQI 33. At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 92 across 20 cities. 8% of the 114 measured cities are over AQI 100 today, where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, and 33% have Good air.
Thuận Thanh, at AQI 132 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) on the US EPA index. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Huế, at AQI 33 (Good). Both lists rank current readings, from ground stations wherever Vietnam has at least three cities with one.
It depends on the city. 38 cities are Good, 67 cities are Moderate, 9 cities are Unhealthy for sensitive groups. At the national average of AQI 59: Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
About 3.85 million ha from 2001 to 2025, 23% of the forest it had in 2000, from the University of Maryland's yearly satellite maps of forest loss. 1.41 million ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
Thị Trấn Thuận Châu, with 82.6% 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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