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Guelmim Air quality today
Air quality in Guelmim currently reads AQI 61 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 61
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 11.4
- tree cover
- 0.5%
- trees in this area
- 1.6K
- more trees needed
- 92.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Guelmim 81000, Morocco (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Guelmim · AQI 61 (Moderate)
Guelmim's tree count comes to 1,571 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 92,677 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Guelmim today: AQI 61, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
11.4
PM10
46.4
NO₂
0.7
O₃
49.0
SO₂
0.6
CO
116.0
- 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 Guelmim's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 33 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 91 on Nov 5.
Where Guelmim stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Guelmim: Critically low
0.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
1,571
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
92,677
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,039 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Guelmim lost?
There was almost no forest around Guelmim 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 Guelmim right now?
The latest reading for Guelmim shows an AQI of 61 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Guelmim today?
At AQI 61 (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 Guelmim been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Guelmim's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 33 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 91 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Guelmim lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Guelmim 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 Guelmim?
Guelmim has an estimated 1,571 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.5% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Guelmim need?
Guelmim needs roughly 92,677 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,039 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Guelmim'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 Guelmim 81000; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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