City report · Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia
Jeddah Air quality today
Air quality in Jeddah currently reads AQI 74 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 74
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 18.9
- tree cover
- 1.5%
- trees in this area
- 4.4K
- more trees needed
- 83.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Historic Jeddah, Jeddah Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 14, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Jeddah · AQI 74 (Moderate)
Jeddah's tree count comes to 4,368 trees across 11.65 km² of land, 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 82,999 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Jeddah today: AQI 74, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 06:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
18.9
PM10
27.6
NO₂
38.5
O₃
36.0
SO₂
54.2
CO
168.0
- 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 Jeddah's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 64 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 131 on Nov 7.
Where Jeddah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Jeddah: Critically low
1.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.65 km² of land.
Trees in this area
4,368
Target trees
87,367
More trees needed
82,999
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,826 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Jeddah lost?
There was almost no forest around Jeddah 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 April 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 Jeddah
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Ta’if129.6 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 58
- Port Sudan292.3 km
Sudan
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 53
- Yanbu311.2 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 0%
- Air quality
- 59
- Sabt Alalayah359.0 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 65
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Jeddah right now?
The latest reading for Jeddah shows an AQI of 74 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 06:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Jeddah today?
At AQI 74 (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 Jeddah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Jeddah's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 64 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 131 on Nov 7. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Jeddah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Jeddah 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 Jeddah?
Jeddah has an estimated 4,368 trees across the 11.65 km² of land measured — 1.5% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Jeddah need?
Jeddah needs roughly 82,999 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,826 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Jeddah'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 Historic Jeddah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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