City report · Katsina State, Nigeria
Funtua Air quality today
Air quality in Funtua currently reads AQI 165 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 165
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 67.5
- tree cover
- 3.3%
- trees in this area
- 10.4K
- more trees needed
- 115K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Funtua, Katsina, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 30, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Funtua · AQI 165 (Unhealthy)
Funtua's tree count comes to 10,367 trees across 12.57 km², 37 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 115,296 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Funtua today: AQI 165, 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
67.5
PM10
571.8
NO₂
1.1
O₃
98.0
SO₂
0.8
CO
229.0
- 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 Funtua's daily AQI at 177 on average, from 153 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 256 on Nov 5.
Where Funtua stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Funtua: Critically low
3.3% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
10,367
Target trees
125,663
More trees needed
115,296
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,537 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Funtua lost?
There was almost no forest around Funtua 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 February 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 Funtua right now?
The latest reading for Funtua shows an AQI of 165 (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 Funtua today?
At AQI 165 (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 Funtua been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Funtua's daily AQI at 177 on average, from 153 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 256 on Nov 5. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Funtua lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Funtua 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 Funtua?
Funtua has an estimated 10,367 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.3% tree cover, 37 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Funtua need?
Funtua needs roughly 115,296 more trees to close a 37-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,537 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Funtua'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 Funtua; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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