City report · Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Hafar Al-Batin Air quality today
Air quality in Hafar Al-Batin currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 53
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 11.3
- tree cover
- 0.6%
- trees in this area
- 1.9K
- more trees needed
- 92.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Khalidiyah, Hafar Al Batin 39953, Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Hafar Al-Batin · AQI 53 (Moderate)
Hafar Al-Batin's tree count comes to 1,885 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 92,363 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Hafar Al-Batin today: AQI 53, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Al Jahra and Kuwait City
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
11.3
PM10
163.4
NO₂
3.8
O₃
70.0
SO₂
8.3
CO
130.0
- 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 Hafar Al-Batin's daily AQI at 127 on average, from 84 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 213 on Nov 7.
Where Hafar Al-Batin stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Hafar Al-Batin: Critically low
0.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
1,885
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
92,363
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,032 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Hafar Al-Batin lost?
There was almost no forest around Hafar Al-Batin 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.
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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Measured cities near Hafar Al-Batin
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Al Jahrā’192.6 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 27
- Al Aḩmadī218.1 km
Kuwait
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 51
- Kuwait City221.0 km
Kuwait
- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 33
- Şabāḩ as Sālim222.9 km
Kuwait
- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 56
- Umm Qaşr259.9 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 66
- Az Zulfī263.2 km
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- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 123
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Hafar Al-Batin right now?
The latest reading for Hafar Al-Batin shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 225 km, 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 Hafar Al-Batin today?
At AQI 53 (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 Hafar Al-Batin been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Hafar Al-Batin's daily AQI at 127 on average, from 84 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 213 on Nov 7. On 5 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Hafar Al-Batin lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Hafar Al-Batin 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 Hafar Al-Batin?
Hafar Al-Batin has an estimated 1,885 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.6% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Hafar Al-Batin need?
Hafar Al-Batin needs roughly 92,363 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,032 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Hafar Al-Batin'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 Al Khalidiyah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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