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Dubai Air quality today
Air quality in Dubai currently reads AQI 20 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 20
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.6
- tree cover
- 3.2%
- trees in this area
- 8.8K
- more trees needed
- 74.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Naif - Deira - Dubai - United Arab Emirates (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Dubai · AQI 20 (Good)
Dubai's tree count comes to 8,837 trees across 11.05 km² of land, 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 74,007 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Dubai today: AQI 20, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 21:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Business Bay, 11.5 km away · median of 3 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.6
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, batmam, Charlie, Oberoi
- 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 Dubai's daily AQI at 115 on average, from 79 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 160 on Nov 5.
Where Dubai stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Dubai: Critically low
3.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.05 km² of land.
Trees in this area
8,837
Target trees
82,844
More trees needed
74,007
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,628 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Dubai lost?
There was almost no forest around Dubai 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 October 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Dubai
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Warīsān15.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
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- Tree cover
- 0%
- Air quality
- 47
- Fujairah105.2 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 53
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Dubai right now?
The latest reading for Dubai shows an AQI of 20 (Good), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Business Bay, 11.5 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Dubai today?
At AQI 20 (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 Dubai been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Dubai's daily AQI at 115 on average, from 79 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 160 on Nov 5. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Dubai lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Dubai 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 Dubai?
Dubai has an estimated 8,837 trees across the 11.05 km² of land measured — 3.2% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Dubai need?
Dubai needs roughly 74,007 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,628 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Dubai's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Naif - Deira - Dubai - United Arab Emirates, 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 Naif - Deira - Dubai - United Arab Emirates; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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