City report · Senegal
Kaolack Air quality today
Air quality in Kaolack currently reads AQI 56 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 56
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 11.9
- tree cover
- 1.0%
- trees in this area
- 3.1K
- more trees needed
- 91.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kaolack, Senegal (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 13, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kaolack · AQI 56 (Moderate)
Kaolack's tree count comes to 3,142 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 91,106 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kaolack today: AQI 56, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 08:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Banjul and Serrekunda
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
11.9
PM10
38.1
NO₂
5.2
O₃
60.0
SO₂
2.4
CO
139.0
- 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 Kaolack's daily AQI at 65 on average, from 56 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 85 on Nov 7.
Where Kaolack stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kaolack: Critically low
1.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
3,142
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
91,106
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,004 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kaolack lost?
There was almost no forest around Kaolack 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 March 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 Kaolack
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Mbaké73.2 km
Senegal
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 52
- Farafenni82.7 km
Gambia
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 51
- Banjul95.0 km
Gambia
- Tree cover
- 25%
- Air quality
- 52
- Mbour100.6 km
Senegal
- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 58
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Questions about Kaolack
What is the air quality (AQI) in Kaolack right now?
The latest reading for Kaolack shows an AQI of 56 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 08:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 km, 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 Kaolack today?
At AQI 56 (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 Kaolack been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kaolack's daily AQI at 65 on average, from 56 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 85 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kaolack lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kaolack 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 Kaolack?
Kaolack has an estimated 3,142 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.0% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kaolack need?
Kaolack needs roughly 91,106 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,004 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kaolack'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 Kaolack; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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