City report · Silesia, Poland
Dąbrowa Górnicza Air quality today
Air quality in Dąbrowa Górnicza currently reads AQI 139 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 139
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 51.0
- tree cover
- 43.9%
- trees in this area
- 130K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 18, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dąbrowa Górnicza · AQI 139 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Dąbrowa Górnicza's tree count comes to 130,055 trees across 11.85 km² of land, already at or above the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dąbrowa Górnicza today: AQI 139, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Wojkowice, 11.8 km away · median of 6 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
51.0
PM10
17.4
NO₂
14.8
O₃
46.4
SO₂
5.9
CO
182.0
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, EEA, farad
- 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 Dąbrowa Górnicza's daily AQI at 120 on average, from 76 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 184 on Nov 8.
Where Dąbrowa Górnicza stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Dąbrowa Górnicza: Healthy tree cover
43.9% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.85 km² of land.
Trees in this area
130,055
Target trees
130,055
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dąbrowa Górnicza lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Dąbrowa Górnicza has lost about 794 hectares of forest (about 1,100 football pitches): 8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 261 hectares (33%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 6 km southeast of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 794 haabout 1,100 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 8%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 261 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is speeding up: about 54 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 41 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2021, when about 96 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 ha | 4 ha | 8 ha |
| 2002 | 6 ha | 17 ha | 23 ha |
| 2003 | 4 ha | 2 ha | 6 ha |
| 2004 | 7 ha | 3 ha | 10 ha |
| 2005 | 19 ha | 29 ha | 47 ha |
| 2006 | 5 ha | 6 ha | 11 ha |
| 2007 | 8 ha | 8 ha | 16 ha |
| 2008 | 10 ha | 12 ha | 22 ha |
| 2009 | 4 ha | 4 ha | 8 ha |
| 2010 | 10 ha | 17 ha | 27 ha |
| 2011 | 5 ha | 8 ha | 13 ha |
| 2012 | 12 ha | 22 ha | 34 ha |
| 2013 | 8 ha | 9 ha | 17 ha |
| 2014 | 36 ha | 27 ha | 63 ha |
| 2015 | 3 ha | 14 ha | 16 ha |
| 2016 | 7 ha | 24 ha | 31 ha |
| 2017 | 15 ha | 25 ha | 40 ha |
| 2018 | 13 ha | 27 ha | 40 ha |
| 2019 | 6 ha | 31 ha | 37 ha |
| 2020 | 24 ha | 31 ha | 55 ha |
| 2021 | 22 ha | 74 ha | 96 ha |
| 2022 | 11 ha | 45 ha | 56 ha |
| 2023 | 4 ha | 36 ha | 40 ha |
| 2024 | 10 ha | 21 ha | 31 ha |
| 2025 | 10 ha | 38 ha | 47 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Dąbrowa Górnicza?
- Loggingcan grow back66% · 520 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good22% · 176 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good11% · 85 ha
Also: unknown causes.
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
- 15,100 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 15,300 ha
- Overall change
- +232 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Dąbrowa Górnicza stayed about the same size, at about 15,300 hectares: new forest grew on about 639 hectares, and about 407 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 Dąbrowa Górnicza
What is the air quality (AQI) in Dąbrowa Górnicza right now?
The latest reading for Dąbrowa Górnicza shows an AQI of 139 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by 6 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Wojkowice, 11.8 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dąbrowa Górnicza today?
At AQI 139 (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 Dąbrowa Górnicza been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dąbrowa Górnicza's daily AQI at 120 on average, from 76 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 184 on Nov 8. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Dąbrowa Górnicza lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Dąbrowa Górnicza has lost about 794 hectares of forest (about 1,100 football pitches): 8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 261 hectares (33%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Forest loss is speeding up: about 54 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 41 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Dąbrowa Górnicza stayed about the same size, at about 15,300 hectares: new forest grew on about 639 hectares, and about 407 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Dąbrowa Górnicza?
Dąbrowa Górnicza has an estimated 130,055 trees across the 11.85 km² of land measured — 43.9% tree cover, already past the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dąbrowa Górnicza need?
Dąbrowa Górnicza has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Dąbrowa Górnicza's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Dąbrowa Górnicza, 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 Dąbrowa Górnicza; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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