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Karabük Air quality today
Air quality in Karabük currently reads AQI 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 111
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 39.5
- tree cover
- 34.3%
- trees in this area
- 108K
- more trees needed
- 2.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Karabük, Karabük Merkez/Karabük, Türkiye (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Karabük · AQI 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Karabük's tree count comes to 107,757 trees across 12.57 km², 1 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 2,199 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Karabük today: AQI 111, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 17:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Toren Alani, Turkey, 900 m away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
39.5
PM10
68.1
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Turkey National Air Quality Monitoring Network (Ulusal Hava Kalitesi İzleme Ağı)
- 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 Karabük's daily AQI at 64 on average, from 38 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 137 on Nov 9.
Where Karabük stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Karabük: Below target
34.3% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
107,757
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
2,199
CO₂ if planted / yr
48.4 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Karabük lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Karabük has lost about 663 hectares of forest (about 930 football pitches): 5.1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 95 hectares (14%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 6 km west of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 663 haabout 930 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 5.1%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 95 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is speeding up: about 59 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 19 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2025, when about 121 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | 4 ha | 4 ha |
| 2003 | 2 ha | 3 ha | 5 ha |
| 2004 | 4 ha | 44 ha | 47 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 3 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | 5 ha | 5 ha |
| 2007 | 3 ha | 35 ha | 38 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | 19 ha | 19 ha |
| 2009 | 9 ha | 18 ha | 27 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | 5 ha | 5 ha |
| 2011 | 3 ha | 17 ha | 20 ha |
| 2012 | 1 ha | 61 ha | 62 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | 10 ha | 10 ha |
| 2014 | 2 ha | 9 ha | 11 ha |
| 2015 | 4 ha | 15 ha | 19 ha |
| 2016 | 9 ha | 10 ha | 19 ha |
| 2017 | 6 ha | 11 ha | 17 ha |
| 2018 | 1 ha | 35 ha | 36 ha |
| 2019 | 7 ha | 8 ha | 15 ha |
| 2020 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2021 | 6 ha | 29 ha | 34 ha |
| 2022 | 8 ha | 60 ha | 68 ha |
| 2023 | 3 ha | 36 ha | 38 ha |
| 2024 | 9 ha | 24 ha | 33 ha |
| 2025 | 13 ha | 108 ha | 121 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Karabük?
- Loggingcan grow back76% · 504 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good13% · 89 ha
- Wildfirescan grow back6.3% · 42 ha
Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, mining and energy, farms, pasture and plantations, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 18,000 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 18,400 ha
- Overall change
- +468 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Karabük grew from about 18,000 hectares to 18,400 hectares, a net gain of about 468 hectares (+2.6%). New forest grew on about 582 hectares, while 114 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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Frequently asked
Questions about Karabük
What is the air quality (AQI) in Karabük right now?
The latest reading for Karabük shows an AQI of 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 17:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Toren Alani, Turkey, 900 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Karabük today?
At AQI 111 (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 Karabük been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Karabük's daily AQI at 64 on average, from 38 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 137 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Karabük lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Karabük has lost about 663 hectares of forest (about 930 football pitches): 5.1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 95 hectares (14%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Forest loss is speeding up: about 59 hectares a year in 2021–2025, up from 19 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Karabük grew from about 18,000 hectares to 18,400 hectares, a net gain of about 468 hectares (+2.6%). New forest grew on about 582 hectares, while 114 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Karabük?
Karabük has an estimated 107,757 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 34.3% tree cover, 1 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Karabük need?
Karabük needs roughly 2,199 more trees to close a 1-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 48.4 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Karabük's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Karabük, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Karabük; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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