City report · Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Dammam Air quality today
Air quality in Dammam currently reads AQI 72 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 72
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 20.6
- tree cover
- 1.1%
- trees in this area
- 3.5K
- more trees needed
- 90.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Adamah, Dammam 32242, Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 18, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dammam · AQI 72 (Moderate)
Dammam's tree count comes to 3,456 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 90,792 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dammam today: AQI 72, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Taibah, 9.5 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
20.6
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, fezode
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dammam's daily AQI at 90 on average, from 73 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 160 on Nov 8.
Where Dammam stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Dammam: Critically low
1.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
3,456
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
90,792
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,997 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dammam lost?
There was almost no forest around Dammam in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2018: satellite photo from September 2018 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
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. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Dammam right now?
The latest reading for Dammam shows an AQI of 72 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by the Taibah ground monitoring station, 9.5 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dammam today?
At AQI 72 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Dammam been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dammam's daily AQI at 90 on average, from 73 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 160 on Nov 8. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Dammam lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Dammam in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Dammam?
Dammam has an estimated 3,456 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.1% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dammam need?
Dammam needs roughly 90,792 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,997 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Dammam's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Al Adamah, 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 Al Adamah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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