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General Santos Air quality today
Air quality in General Santos currently reads AQI 6 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 6
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 0.9
- tree cover
- 30.7%
- trees in this area
- 76.2K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Dadiangas East, General Santos City (Dadiangas), South Cotabato, Philippines (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 7, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
General Santos · AQI 6 (Good)
General Santos's tree count comes to 76,193 trees across 9.93 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in General Santos today: AQI 6, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 145 km, e.g. Davao City and Panabo
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
0.9
PM10
4.1
NO₂
10.3
O₃
19.0
SO₂
1.2
CO
145.0
- 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 General Santos's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 28 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 6.
Where General Santos stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in General Santos: Healthy tree cover
30.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.93 km² of land.
Trees in this area
76,193
Target trees
76,193
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has General Santos lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of General Santos has lost about 435 hectares of forest (about 610 football pitches): 9.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (99%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from May 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km northeast of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 435 haabout 610 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 9.8%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 428 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2016, when about 50 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 18 ha | under 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2002 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2003 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2004 | 10 ha | under 1 ha | 11 ha |
| 2005 | 26 ha | under 1 ha | 26 ha |
| 2006 | 15 ha | under 1 ha | 15 ha |
| 2007 | 13 ha | under 1 ha | 13 ha |
| 2008 | 5 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2009 | 28 ha | under 1 ha | 28 ha |
| 2010 | 31 ha | under 1 ha | 31 ha |
| 2011 | 15 ha | under 1 ha | 16 ha |
| 2012 | 28 ha | under 1 ha | 28 ha |
| 2013 | 8 ha | under 1 ha | 8 ha |
| 2014 | 25 ha | under 1 ha | 25 ha |
| 2015 | 13 ha | under 1 ha | 14 ha |
| 2016 | 50 ha | under 1 ha | 50 ha |
| 2017 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2018 | 35 ha | under 1 ha | 35 ha |
| 2019 | 9 ha | under 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2020 | 15 ha | under 1 ha | 15 ha |
| 2021 | 18 ha | under 1 ha | 18 ha |
| 2022 | 6 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2023 | 14 ha | under 1 ha | 14 ha |
| 2024 | 12 ha | under 1 ha | 12 ha |
| 2025 | 13 ha | 2 ha | 15 ha |
What is causing deforestation around General Santos?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good63% · 272 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good36% · 156 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown1.4% · 6 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 6,510 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 6,600 ha
- Overall change
- +91 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around General Santos stayed about the same size, at about 6,600 hectares: new forest grew on about 654 hectares, and about 564 hectares were 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 General Santos right now?
The latest reading for General Santos shows an AQI of 6 (Good), observed Nov 11, 03:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in General Santos today?
At AQI 6 (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 General Santos been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put General Santos's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 28 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 6. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around General Santos lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of General Santos has lost about 435 hectares of forest (about 610 football pitches): 9.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (99%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around General Santos stayed about the same size, at about 6,600 hectares: new forest grew on about 654 hectares, and about 564 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in General Santos?
General Santos has an estimated 76,193 trees across the 9.93 km² of land measured — 30.7% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does General Santos need?
General Santos has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are General Santos'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 Dadiangas East; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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