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Flying Fish Cove Air quality today
Air quality in Flying Fish Cove currently reads AQI 65 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 65
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 16.2
- tree cover
- 76.2%
- trees in this area
- 134K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Flying Fish Cove Shire of Christmas Island 6798, Christmas Island (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 1, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Flying Fish Cove · AQI 65 (Moderate)
Flying Fish Cove's tree count comes to 134,297 trees across 7.05 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Flying Fish Cove today: AQI 65, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
16.2
PM10
26.3
NO₂
0.1
O₃
52.0
SO₂
0.5
CO
102.0
- 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 Flying Fish Cove's daily AQI at 63 on average, from 58 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 73 on Nov 9.
Where Flying Fish Cove stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Flying Fish Cove: Healthy tree cover
76.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 7.05 km² of land.
Trees in this area
134,297
Target trees
134,297
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Flying Fish Cove lost?
There was almost no forest around Flying Fish Cove 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.
The forest-loss maps don't cover this area.
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 Flying Fish Cove right now?
The latest reading for Flying Fish Cove shows an AQI of 65 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Flying Fish Cove today?
At AQI 65 (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 Flying Fish Cove been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Flying Fish Cove's daily AQI at 63 on average, from 58 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 73 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Flying Fish Cove lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Flying Fish Cove 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 Flying Fish Cove?
Flying Fish Cove has an estimated 134,297 trees across the 7.05 km² of land measured — 76.2% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Flying Fish Cove need?
Flying Fish Cove has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Flying Fish Cove'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 Flying Fish Cove Shire of Christmas Island 6798; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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