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El Obeid Air quality today
Air quality in El Obeid currently reads AQI 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 106
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 31.7
- tree cover
- 3.9%
- trees in this area
- 12.3K
- more trees needed
- 97.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around El Obeid, Sudan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
El Obeid · AQI 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
El Obeid's tree count comes to 12,252 trees across 12.57 km², 31 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 97,704 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in El Obeid today: AQI 106, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
31.7
PM10
97.8
NO₂
0.3
O₃
84.0
SO₂
1.9
CO
126.0
- 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 El Obeid's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 72 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 148 on Nov 7.
Where El Obeid stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in El Obeid: Critically low
3.9% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
12,252
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
97,704
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,149 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has El Obeid lost?
There was almost no forest around El Obeid 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 January 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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Questions about El Obeid
What is the air quality (AQI) in El Obeid right now?
The latest reading for El Obeid shows an AQI of 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in El Obeid today?
At AQI 106 (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 El Obeid been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put El Obeid's daily AQI at 100 on average, from 72 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 148 on Nov 7. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around El Obeid lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around El Obeid 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 El Obeid?
El Obeid has an estimated 12,252 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.9% tree cover, 31 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does El Obeid need?
El Obeid needs roughly 97,704 more trees to close a 31-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,149 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are El Obeid'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 El Obeid; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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