City report · Eritrea
Himora Air quality today
Air quality in Himora currently reads AQI 22 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 22
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.6
- tree cover
- 4.7%
- trees in this area
- 14.7K
- more trees needed
- 79.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Gash-Barka Region, Qash-Barkah, Eritrea (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 17, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Himora · AQI 22 (Good)
Himora's tree count comes to 14,721 trees across 12.53 km² of land, 25 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 79,244 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Himora today: AQI 22, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.6
PM10
4.6
NO₂
2.7
O₃
48.0
SO₂
0.5
CO
156.0
- 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 Himora's daily AQI at 46 on average, from 24 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 78 on Nov 8.
Where Himora stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Himora: Critically low
4.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.53 km² of land.
Trees in this area
14,721
Target trees
93,965
More trees needed
79,244
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,743 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Himora lost?
There was almost no forest around Himora 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
- 70
- Inda Silasē182.1 km
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- Air quality
- 28
- Gonder211.1 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Himora right now?
The latest reading for Himora shows an AQI of 22 (Good), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Himora today?
At AQI 22 (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 Himora been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Himora's daily AQI at 46 on average, from 24 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 78 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 Himora lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Himora 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 Himora?
Himora has an estimated 14,721 trees across the 12.53 km² of land measured — 4.7% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Himora need?
Himora needs roughly 79,244 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,743 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Himora'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 Gash-Barka Region; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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