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Funafuti Air quality today
Air quality in Funafuti currently reads AQI 26 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 26
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.5
- tree cover
- 49.4%
- trees in this area
- 2.0K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Vaiaku, Tuvalu (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 17, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Funafuti · AQI 26 (Good)
Funafuti's tree count comes to 2,018 trees across 0.16 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Funafuti today: AQI 26, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 06:00 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
4.5
PM10
7.7
NO₂
0.0
O₃
34.0
SO₂
0.1
CO
83.0
- 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 Funafuti's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 26 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 56 on Nov 9.
Where Funafuti stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Funafuti: Healthy tree cover
49.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 0.16 km² of land.
Trees in this area
2,018
Target trees
2,018
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Funafuti lost?
There was almost no forest around Funafuti 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.
2020: satellite photo from April 2020 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 Funafuti right now?
The latest reading for Funafuti shows an AQI of 26 (Good), observed Nov 11, 06:00 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 Funafuti today?
At AQI 26 (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 Funafuti been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Funafuti's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 26 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 56 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 Funafuti lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Funafuti 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 Funafuti?
Funafuti has an estimated 2,018 trees across the 0.16 km² of land measured — 49.4% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Funafuti need?
Funafuti has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Funafuti'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 Vaiaku; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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