City report · Qena, Egypt
Esna Air quality today
Air quality in Esna currently reads AQI 153 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 153
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 69.4
- tree cover
- 44.1%
- trees in this area
- 116K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Esna, Esna City, Esna, Luxor Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Esna · AQI 153 (Unhealthy)
Esna's tree count comes to 116,100 trees across 10.53 km² of land, already at or above the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Esna today: AQI 153, Unhealthy
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
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
69.4
PM10
397.7
NO₂
2.2
O₃
101.0
SO₂
2.5
CO
133.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Esna's daily AQI at 143 on average, from 107 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 191 on Nov 6.
Where Esna stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Esna: Healthy tree cover
44.1% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
116,100
Target trees
116,100
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Esna lost?
There was almost no forest around Esna 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 September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 255 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 318 ha
- Overall change
- +63 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Esna grew from about 255 hectares to 318 hectares, a net gain of about 63 hectares (+25%). New forest grew on about 63 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Esna right now?
The latest reading for Esna shows an AQI of 153 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Esna today?
At AQI 153 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Esna been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Esna's daily AQI at 143 on average, from 107 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 191 on Nov 6. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Esna lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Esna 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Esna grew from about 255 hectares to 318 hectares, a net gain of about 63 hectares (+25%). New forest grew on about 63 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Esna?
Esna has an estimated 116,100 trees across the 10.53 km² of land measured — 44.1% tree cover, already past the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Esna need?
Esna has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Esna'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 Esna; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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