City report · Lower Saxony, Germany
Göttingen Air quality today
Air quality in Göttingen currently reads AQI 42 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 42
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 7.6
- tree cover
- 45.0%
- trees in this area
- 141K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Innenstadt, Göttingen, Germany (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Göttingen · AQI 42 (Good)
Göttingen's tree count comes to 140,806 trees across 12.52 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Göttingen today: AQI 42, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 16:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Göttingen-Verkehr, 500 m away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
7.6
PM10
10.0
NO₂
—
O₃
22.0
SO₂
0.8
CO
246.5
Data: OpenAQ · EEA
- 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 Göttingen's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 36 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 84 on Nov 8.
Where Göttingen stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Göttingen: Healthy tree cover
45.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.52 km² of land.
Trees in this area
140,806
Target trees
140,806
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Göttingen lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Göttingen has lost about 388 hectares of forest (about 540 football pitches): 3.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 9 hectares (2.2%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km north of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 388 haabout 540 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 3.8%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 9 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2018, when about 79 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 3 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 2 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | 14 ha | 15 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | 9 ha | 10 ha |
| 2006 | 1 ha | 19 ha | 21 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | 9 ha | 9 ha |
| 2008 | 1 ha | 12 ha | 13 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 2 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | 9 ha | 9 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | 4 ha | 5 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 3 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 2 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 4 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | 18 ha | 18 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | 79 ha | 79 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | 69 ha | 69 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | 69 ha | 69 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | 23 ha | 23 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | 5 ha | 5 ha |
| 2023 | 1 ha | 18 ha | 19 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 3 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | 4 ha | 4 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Göttingen?
- Loggingcan grow back94% · 365 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good2.3% · 9 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown3.8% · 15 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
- 12,100 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 12,300 ha
- Overall change
- +141 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Göttingen stayed about the same size, at about 12,300 hectares: new forest grew on about 320 hectares, and about 179 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 Göttingen right now?
The latest reading for Göttingen shows an AQI of 42 (Good), measured Nov 11, 16:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Göttingen-Verkehr, 500 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Göttingen today?
At AQI 42 (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 Göttingen been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Göttingen's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 36 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 84 on Nov 8. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Göttingen lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Göttingen has lost about 388 hectares of forest (about 540 football pitches): 3.8% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 9 hectares (2.2%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Göttingen stayed about the same size, at about 12,300 hectares: new forest grew on about 320 hectares, and about 179 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Göttingen?
Göttingen has an estimated 140,806 trees across the 12.52 km² of land measured — 45.0% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Göttingen need?
Göttingen has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Göttingen's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Innenstadt, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Innenstadt; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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