City report · Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Kelar Air quality today
Air quality in Kelar currently reads AQI 187 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 187
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 85.5
- tree cover
- 4.7%
- trees in this area
- 14.8K
- more trees needed
- 111K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kalar, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kelar · AQI 187 (Unhealthy)
Kelar's tree count comes to 14,765 trees across 12.57 km², 35 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 110,898 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kelar today: AQI 187, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 09:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Sulaymaniyah and Baghdad
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
85.5
PM10
41.6
NO₂
15.9
O₃
53.0
SO₂
3.2
CO
391.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kelar's daily AQI at 79 on average, from 65 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 9.
Where Kelar stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kelar: Critically low
4.7% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
14,765
Target trees
125,663
More trees needed
110,898
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,440 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kelar lost?
There was almost no forest around Kelar 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 July 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 Kelar
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Khānaqīn31.8 km
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- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 152
- Ţūz Khūrmātū69.0 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 82
- Al Miqdādīyah80.3 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 20%
- Air quality
- 91
- Sulaymaniyah104.7 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 132
- Baqubah117.3 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 78
- Kirkuk125.8 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 82
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kelar right now?
The latest reading for Kelar shows an AQI of 187 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 09:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kelar today?
At AQI 187 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Kelar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kelar's daily AQI at 79 on average, from 65 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 153 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 Kelar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kelar 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 Kelar?
Kelar has an estimated 14,765 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 4.7% tree cover, 35 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kelar need?
Kelar needs roughly 110,898 more trees to close a 35-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,440 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kelar'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 Kalar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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