City report · Sohag, Egypt
Girga Air quality today
Air quality in Girga currently reads AQI 482 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
AQI 482
Air quality right now
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 297.1
- tree cover
- 15.4%
- trees in this area
- 44.8K
- more trees needed
- 86.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Girga, Gerga, Sohag 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.
Girga · AQI 482 (Hazardous)
Girga's tree count comes to 44,849 trees across 11.65 km² of land, 30 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 86,203 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Girga today: AQI 482, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
297.1
PM10
1598.1
NO₂
6.9
O₃
69.0
SO₂
4.7
CO
172.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Girga's daily AQI at 226 on average, from 167 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 521 on Nov 10.
Where Girga stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Girga: Critically low
15.4% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.65 km² of land.
Trees in this area
44,849
Target trees
131,052
More trees needed
86,203
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,896 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Girga lost?
There was almost no forest around Girga 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
- 94 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 146 ha
- Overall change
- +52 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Girga grew from about 94 hectares to 146 hectares, a net gain of about 52 hectares. New forest grew on about 52 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 Girga right now?
The latest reading for Girga shows an AQI of 482 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Girga today?
At AQI 482 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Girga been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Girga's daily AQI at 226 on average, from 167 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 521 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Girga lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Girga 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 Girga grew from about 94 hectares to 146 hectares, a net gain of about 52 hectares. New forest grew on about 52 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Girga?
Girga has an estimated 44,849 trees across the 11.65 km² of land measured — 15.4% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Girga need?
Girga needs roughly 86,203 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,896 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Girga'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 Girga; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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