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Kano Air quality today
Air quality in Kano currently reads AQI 65 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 65
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 14.1
- tree cover
- 1.7%
- trees in this area
- 5.3K
- more trees needed
- 88.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kano City, Kano, Nigeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 28, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kano · AQI 65 (Moderate)
Kano's tree count comes to 5,335 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 88,818 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kano today: AQI 65, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 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
14.1
PM10
27.0
NO₂
1.7
O₃
89.0
SO₂
0.7
CO
219.0
- 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 Kano's daily AQI at 181 on average, from 140 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 441 on Nov 4.
Where Kano stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kano: Critically low
1.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
5,335
Target trees
94,153
More trees needed
88,818
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,954 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kano lost?
There was almost no forest around Kano 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 Kano right now?
The latest reading for Kano shows an AQI of 65 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 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 Kano today?
At AQI 65 (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 Kano been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kano's daily AQI at 181 on average, from 140 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 441 on Nov 4. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kano lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kano 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 Kano?
Kano has an estimated 5,335 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 1.7% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kano need?
Kano needs roughly 88,818 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,954 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kano'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 Kano City; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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