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Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos Air quality today
Air quality in Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos currently reads AQI 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 107
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 38.0
- tree cover
- 33.2%
- trees in this area
- 104K
- more trees needed
- 5.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Jesús del Monte, Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos · AQI 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos's tree count comes to 104,301 trees across 12.57 km², 2 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 5,655 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos today: AQI 107, 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 · Pedregal, 10.3 km away · median of 15 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
38.0
PM10
73.0
NO₂
86.6
O₃
58.9
SO₂
15.7
CO
1260.2
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 Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 70 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 137 on Nov 9.
Where Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos: Below target
33.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
104,301
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
5,655
CO₂ if planted / yr
124.4 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos has lost about 125 hectares of forest (about 180 football pitches): 1.1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (61%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from March 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 125 haabout 180 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 1.1%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 77 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2024, when about 26 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2004 | 2 ha | 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2005 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2006 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2007 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2008 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | 6 ha | 3 ha | 9 ha |
| 2012 | 1 ha | 2 ha | 3 ha |
| 2013 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2014 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2015 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2016 | 8 ha | 4 ha | 13 ha |
| 2017 | 10 ha | 3 ha | 12 ha |
| 2018 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2019 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2022 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | 7 ha | 18 ha | 26 ha |
| 2025 | 4 ha | 5 ha | 9 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos?
- Towns and roadscleared for good54% · 68 ha
- Wildfirescan grow back8.5% · 11 ha
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back8.1% · 10 ha
Also: logging, farms, pasture and plantations, mining and energy, 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
- 13,000 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 12,900 ha
- Overall change
- −101 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos stayed about the same size, at about 12,900 hectares: new forest grew on about 197 hectares, and about 298 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 Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos
What is the air quality (AQI) in Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos right now?
The latest reading for Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos shows an AQI of 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 11:00 local time by 15 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Pedregal, 10.3 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos today?
At AQI 107 (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 Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 70 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 137 on Nov 9. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos has lost about 125 hectares of forest (about 180 football pitches): 1.1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (61%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos stayed about the same size, at about 12,900 hectares: new forest grew on about 197 hectares, and about 298 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos?
Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos has an estimated 104,301 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 33.2% tree cover, 2 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos need?
Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos needs roughly 5,655 more trees to close a 2-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 124.4 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Jesús del Monte, 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 Jesús del Monte; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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