City report · Kaduna State, Nigeria
Kaduna Air quality today
Air quality in Kaduna currently reads AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 102
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 39.6
- tree cover
- 15.5%
- trees in this area
- 48.7K
- more trees needed
- 61.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Sabon Gari, Kaduna, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 30, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kaduna · AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Kaduna's tree count comes to 48,695 trees across 12.57 km², 19 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 61,261 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kaduna today: AQI 102, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 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. Madalla and Abuja
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
39.6
PM10
209.1
NO₂
2.7
O₃
73.0
SO₂
0.8
CO
213.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kaduna's daily AQI at 134 on average, from 113 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 190 on Nov 5.
Where Kaduna stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kaduna: Critically low
15.5% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
48,695
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
61,261
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,348 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kaduna lost?
There was almost no forest around Kaduna 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 445 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 432 ha
- Overall change
- −13 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kaduna shrank from about 445 hectares to 432 hectares, a net loss of about 13 hectares (−2.9%). New forest grew on about 28 hectares, but 42 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 Kaduna right now?
The latest reading for Kaduna shows an AQI of 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 165 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kaduna today?
At AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Kaduna been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kaduna's daily AQI at 134 on average, from 113 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 190 on Nov 5. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kaduna lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kaduna 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kaduna shrank from about 445 hectares to 432 hectares, a net loss of about 13 hectares (−2.9%). New forest grew on about 28 hectares, but 42 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Kaduna?
Kaduna has an estimated 48,695 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 15.5% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kaduna need?
Kaduna needs roughly 61,261 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,348 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kaduna'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 Sabon Gari; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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