City report · Duhok, Iraq
Dihok Air quality today
Air quality in Dihok currently reads AQI 23 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 23
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.2
- tree cover
- 11.3%
- trees in this area
- 35.0K
- more trees needed
- 58.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dihok · AQI 23 (Good)
Dihok's tree count comes to 35,038 trees across 12.41 km² of land, 19 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 57,984 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dihok today: AQI 23, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
4.2
PM10
5.7
NO₂
5.7
O₃
79.0
SO₂
7.8
CO
212.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dihok's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 36 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 70 on Nov 5.
Where Dihok stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Dihok: Critically low
11.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.41 km² of land.
Trees in this area
35,038
Target trees
93,022
More trees needed
57,984
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,276 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dihok lost?
There was almost no forest around Dihok 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.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 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 Dihok right now?
The latest reading for Dihok shows an AQI of 23 (Good), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dihok today?
At AQI 23 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Dihok been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dihok's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 36 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 70 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Dihok lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Dihok 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 Dihok?
Dihok has an estimated 35,038 trees across the 12.41 km² of land measured — 11.3% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dihok need?
Dihok needs roughly 57,984 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,276 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Dihok's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. 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 Duhok; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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