City report · Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan
Ekibastuz Air quality today
Air quality in Ekibastuz currently reads AQI 91 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 91
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 30.8
- tree cover
- 6.0%
- trees in this area
- 18.8K
- more trees needed
- 75.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Microdistrict 5A, 140000 Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 11, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ekibastuz · AQI 91 (Moderate)
Ekibastuz's tree count comes to 18,831 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 24 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 75,323 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ekibastuz today: AQI 91, 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 · B.Momyshyly street, 1.7 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
30.8
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Yar
- 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 Ekibastuz's daily AQI at 30 on average, from 16 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 65 on Nov 5.
Where Ekibastuz stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ekibastuz: Critically low
6.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
18,831
Target trees
94,154
More trees needed
75,323
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,657 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ekibastuz lost?
There was almost no forest around Ekibastuz 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 Ekibastuz right now?
The latest reading for Ekibastuz shows an AQI of 91 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 21:00 local time by the B.Momyshyly street ground monitoring station, 1.7 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 Ekibastuz today?
At AQI 91 (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 Ekibastuz been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ekibastuz's daily AQI at 30 on average, from 16 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 65 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 Ekibastuz lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ekibastuz 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 Ekibastuz?
Ekibastuz has an estimated 18,831 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 6.0% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ekibastuz need?
Ekibastuz needs roughly 75,323 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,657 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ekibastuz's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Microdistrict 5A, 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 Microdistrict 5A; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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