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Gómez Palacio Air quality today
Air quality in Gómez Palacio currently reads AQI 78 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 78
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 8.0
- tree cover
- 3.1%
- trees in this area
- 9.7K
- more trees needed
- 84.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Zona Centro, Gómez Palacio, Dgo., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 18, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Gómez Palacio · AQI 78 (Moderate)
Gómez Palacio's tree count comes to 9,739 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 84,509 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Gómez Palacio today: AQI 78, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM10 · Observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Campestre, 2 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
8.0
PM10
110.7
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · Sinaica Mexico
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Gómez Palacio's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 33 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 73 on Nov 10.
Where Gómez Palacio stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Gómez Palacio: Critically low
3.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
9,739
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
84,509
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,859 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Gómez Palacio lost?
There was almost no forest around Gómez Palacio 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 November 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 Gómez Palacio right now?
The latest reading for Gómez Palacio shows an AQI of 78 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 10:00 local time by the Campestre ground monitoring station, 2 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM10. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Gómez Palacio today?
At AQI 78 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Gómez Palacio been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Gómez Palacio's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 33 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 73 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Gómez Palacio lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Gómez Palacio 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 Gómez Palacio?
Gómez Palacio has an estimated 9,739 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.1% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Gómez Palacio need?
Gómez Palacio needs roughly 84,509 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,859 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Gómez Palacio's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Zona Centro, 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 Zona Centro; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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