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Elista Air quality today
Air quality in Elista currently reads AQI 22 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 22
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.0
- tree cover
- 18.9%
- trees in this area
- 59.4K
- more trees needed
- 34.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Elista, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 10, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Elista · AQI 22 (Good)
Elista's tree count comes to 59,376 trees across 12.57 km², 11 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 34,872 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Elista today: AQI 22, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 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
4.0
PM10
5.1
NO₂
1.3
O₃
65.0
SO₂
1.9
CO
157.0
- 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 Elista's daily AQI at 28 on average, from 14 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 56 on Nov 10.
Where Elista stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Elista: Below target
18.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
59,376
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
34,872
CO₂ if planted / yr
767.2 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Elista lost?
There was almost no forest around Elista 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 July 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Volgograd268.1 km
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Elista right now?
The latest reading for Elista shows an AQI of 22 (Good), observed Nov 11, 12:00 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 Elista today?
At AQI 22 (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 Elista been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Elista's daily AQI at 28 on average, from 14 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 56 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Elista lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Elista 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 Elista?
Elista has an estimated 59,376 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 18.9% tree cover, 11 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Elista need?
Elista needs roughly 34,872 more trees to close a 11-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 767.2 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Elista'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 Elista; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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