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Homs Air quality today
Air quality in Homs currently reads AQI 24 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 24
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.9
- tree cover
- 2.2%
- trees in this area
- 6.9K
- more trees needed
- 87.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Job Al Jandaley, Homs, Syria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Homs · AQI 24 (Good)
Homs's tree count comes to 6,912 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 87,336 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Homs today: AQI 24, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 165 km, e.g. Zahlé and Aley
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.9
PM10
9.1
NO₂
2.8
O₃
86.0
SO₂
25.3
CO
141.0
- 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 Homs's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 21 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 61 on Nov 6.
Where Homs stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Homs: Critically low
2.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
6,912
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
87,336
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,921 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Homs lost?
There was almost no forest around Homs 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 July 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Homs
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Ţarţūs78.8 km
Syria
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 17
- Tripoli86.9 km
Lebanon
- Tree cover
- 11%
- Air quality
- 125
- Zahlé123.4 km
Lebanon
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 21
- Dūmā131.5 km
Syria
- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 69
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Homs right now?
The latest reading for Homs shows an AQI of 24 (Good), observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Homs today?
At AQI 24 (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 Homs been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Homs's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 21 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 61 on Nov 6. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Homs lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Homs 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 Homs?
Homs has an estimated 6,912 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.2% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Homs need?
Homs needs roughly 87,336 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,921 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Homs'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 Job Al Jandaley; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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