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Kara Air quality today
Air quality in Kara currently reads AQI 57 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 57
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 12.6
- tree cover
- 16.7%
- trees in this area
- 52.5K
- more trees needed
- 41.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kara, Togo (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Jul 6, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kara · AQI 57 (Moderate)
Kara's tree count comes to 52,465 trees across 12.57 km², 13 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 41,783 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kara today: AQI 57, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 04:00 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
12.6
PM10
20.4
NO₂
3.5
O₃
52.0
SO₂
0.5
CO
259.0
- 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 Kara's daily AQI at 68 on average, from 57 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 94 on Nov 8.
Where Kara stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kara: Critically low
16.7% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
52,465
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
41,783
CO₂ if planted / yr
919.2 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kara lost?
There was almost no forest around Kara 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
- 12,100 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 12,100 ha
- Overall change
- −16 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kara stayed about the same size, at about 12,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 114 hectares, and about 131 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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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kara right now?
The latest reading for Kara shows an AQI of 57 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 04:00 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 Kara today?
At AQI 57 (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 Kara been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kara's daily AQI at 68 on average, from 57 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 94 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 Kara lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kara 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 Kara stayed about the same size, at about 12,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 114 hectares, and about 131 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Kara?
Kara has an estimated 52,465 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 16.7% tree cover, 13 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kara need?
Kara needs roughly 41,783 more trees to close a 13-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 919.2 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kara'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 Kara; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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