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Cuautitlán Izcalli Air quality today
Air quality in Cuautitlán Izcalli currently reads AQI 115 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 115
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 41.0
- tree cover
- 11.1%
- trees in this area
- 34.5K
- more trees needed
- 74.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Manzana 007, Atlanta, 54740 Cuautitlán Izcalli, Méx., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Cuautitlán Izcalli · AQI 115 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Cuautitlán Izcalli's tree count comes to 34,523 trees across 12.44 km² of land, 24 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 74,333 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Cuautitlán Izcalli today: AQI 115, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Camarones, 20.1 km away · median of 10 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
41.0
PM10
92.0
NO₂
92.2
O₃
52.0
SO₂
21.0
CO
1202.9
Data: OpenAQ · Sinaica Mexico
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Cuautitlán Izcalli's daily AQI at 82 on average, from 70 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 135 on Nov 9.
Where Cuautitlán Izcalli stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Cuautitlán Izcalli: Critically low
11.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.44 km² of land.
Trees in this area
34,523
Target trees
108,856
More trees needed
74,333
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,635 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Cuautitlán Izcalli lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Cuautitlán Izcalli has lost about 36 hectares of forest (about 50 football pitches): 2.9% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (82%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from February 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 36 haabout 50 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 2.9%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 30 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2001, when about 11 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 ha | under 1 ha | 11 ha |
| 2002 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2007 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2008 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2009 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2010 | 6 ha | 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Cuautitlán Izcalli?
- Towns and roadscleared for good82% · 29 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown18% · 6 ha
Also: mining and energy.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,410 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,400 ha
- Overall change
- −9 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Cuautitlán Izcalli stayed about the same size, at about 1,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 64 hectares, and about 73 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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Questions about Cuautitlán Izcalli
What is the air quality (AQI) in Cuautitlán Izcalli right now?
The latest reading for Cuautitlán Izcalli shows an AQI of 115 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 11:00 local time by 10 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Camarones, 20.1 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Cuautitlán Izcalli today?
At AQI 115 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Cuautitlán Izcalli been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Cuautitlán Izcalli's daily AQI at 82 on average, from 70 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 135 on Nov 9. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Cuautitlán Izcalli lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Cuautitlán Izcalli has lost about 36 hectares of forest (about 50 football pitches): 2.9% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (82%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Cuautitlán Izcalli stayed about the same size, at about 1,400 hectares: new forest grew on about 64 hectares, and about 73 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Cuautitlán Izcalli?
Cuautitlán Izcalli has an estimated 34,523 trees across the 12.44 km² of land measured — 11.1% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Cuautitlán Izcalli need?
Cuautitlán Izcalli needs roughly 74,333 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,635 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Cuautitlán Izcalli's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Manzana 007, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Manzana 007; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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