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Innsbruck Air quality today
Air quality in Innsbruck currently reads AQI 68 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 68
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 18.1
- tree cover
- 40.1%
- trees in this area
- 124K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Innenstadt, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 12, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Innsbruck · AQI 68 (Moderate)
Innsbruck's tree count comes to 124,340 trees across 12.41 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Innsbruck today: AQI 68, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 17:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Hall in Tirol , 8.2 km away · median of 6 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
18.1
PM10
13.1
NO₂
23.0
O₃
41.2
SO₂
1.1
CO
255.7
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, EEA, AD
- 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 Innsbruck's daily AQI at 51 on average, from 43 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 78 on Nov 4.
Where Innsbruck stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Innsbruck: Healthy tree cover
40.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.41 km² of land.
Trees in this area
124,340
Target trees
124,340
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Innsbruck lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Innsbruck has lost about 1,260 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 7.4% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 163 hectares (13%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2018: satellite photo from August 2018 of a 5 × 5 km area about 6 km south of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,260 haabout 1,800 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 7.4%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 163 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 61 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 61 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2009, when about 93 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 ha | 17 ha | 20 ha |
| 2002 | 10 ha | 43 ha | 53 ha |
| 2003 | 1 ha | 11 ha | 13 ha |
| 2004 | 3 ha | 33 ha | 36 ha |
| 2005 | 4 ha | 44 ha | 48 ha |
| 2006 | 6 ha | 31 ha | 37 ha |
| 2007 | 10 ha | 44 ha | 53 ha |
| 2008 | 10 ha | 32 ha | 42 ha |
| 2009 | 16 ha | 77 ha | 93 ha |
| 2010 | 13 ha | 38 ha | 51 ha |
| 2011 | 3 ha | 29 ha | 32 ha |
| 2012 | 9 ha | 61 ha | 70 ha |
| 2013 | 8 ha | 34 ha | 41 ha |
| 2014 | 6 ha | 29 ha | 35 ha |
| 2015 | 4 ha | 24 ha | 28 ha |
| 2016 | 6 ha | 40 ha | 45 ha |
| 2017 | 11 ha | 77 ha | 88 ha |
| 2018 | 4 ha | 61 ha | 65 ha |
| 2019 | 12 ha | 59 ha | 71 ha |
| 2020 | 3 ha | 32 ha | 36 ha |
| 2021 | 3 ha | 30 ha | 33 ha |
| 2022 | 2 ha | 59 ha | 61 ha |
| 2023 | 5 ha | 55 ha | 60 ha |
| 2024 | 6 ha | 79 ha | 84 ha |
| 2025 | 5 ha | 60 ha | 64 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Innsbruck?
- Loggingcan grow back79% · 999 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good12% · 154 ha
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back6.8% · 85 ha
Also: farms, pasture and plantations, wildfires, mining and energy, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 17,900 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 17,600 ha
- Overall change
- −323 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Innsbruck stayed about the same size, at about 17,600 hectares: new forest grew on about 91 hectares, and about 413 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Innsbruck right now?
The latest reading for Innsbruck shows an AQI of 68 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 17:00 local time by 6 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Hall in Tirol , 8.2 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Innsbruck today?
At AQI 68 (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 Innsbruck been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Innsbruck's daily AQI at 51 on average, from 43 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 78 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Innsbruck lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Innsbruck has lost about 1,260 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 7.4% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 163 hectares (13%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 61 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 61 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Innsbruck stayed about the same size, at about 17,600 hectares: new forest grew on about 91 hectares, and about 413 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Innsbruck?
Innsbruck has an estimated 124,340 trees across the 12.41 km² of land measured — 40.1% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Innsbruck need?
Innsbruck has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Innsbruck's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Innenstadt, 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 Innenstadt; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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