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Iquique Air quality today
Air quality in Iquique currently reads AQI 35 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 35
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.3
- tree cover
- 0.3%
- trees in this area
- 454
- more trees needed
- 45.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Jul 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Iquique · AQI 35 (Good)
Iquique's tree count comes to 454 trees across 6.06 km² of land, 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 44,973 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Iquique today: AQI 35, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 03:00 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
6.3
PM10
9.3
NO₂
0.7
O₃
53.0
SO₂
1.1
CO
105.0
- 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 Iquique's daily AQI at 30 on average, from 27 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 48 on Nov 8.
Where Iquique stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Iquique: Critically low
0.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 6.06 km² of land.
Trees in this area
454
Target trees
45,427
More trees needed
44,973
CO₂ if planted / yr
989.4 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Iquique lost?
There was almost no forest around Iquique 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 Iquique right now?
The latest reading for Iquique shows an AQI of 35 (Good), observed Nov 11, 03:00 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 Iquique today?
At AQI 35 (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 Iquique been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Iquique's daily AQI at 30 on average, from 27 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 48 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 Iquique lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Iquique 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 Iquique?
Iquique has an estimated 454 trees across the 6.06 km² of land measured — 0.3% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Iquique need?
Iquique needs roughly 44,973 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 989.4 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Iquique'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 Iquique; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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