City report · Diyala, Iraq
Khānaqīn Air quality today
Air quality in Khānaqīn currently reads AQI 141 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 141
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 54.8
- tree cover
- 16.1%
- trees in this area
- 50.6K
- more trees needed
- 59.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Khanaqin, Diyala 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.
Khānaqīn · AQI 141 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Khānaqīn's tree count comes to 50,580 trees across 12.57 km², 19 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 59,376 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Khānaqīn today: AQI 141, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 145 km, e.g. Sulaymaniyah and Baghdad
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
54.8
PM10
61.0
NO₂
24.2
O₃
71.0
SO₂
2.2
CO
699.0
- 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 Khānaqīn's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 75 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 9.
Where Khānaqīn stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Khānaqīn: Critically low
16.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
50,580
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
59,376
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,306 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Khānaqīn lost?
There was almost no forest around Khānaqīn 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
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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Kelar31.8 km
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- Air quality
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- Al Miqdādīyah58.6 km
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- Air quality
- 96
- Ţūz Khūrmātū91.7 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 77
- Baqubah98.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 82
- Īlām123.7 km
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- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 161
- Sulaymaniyah135.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 135
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Khānaqīn right now?
The latest reading for Khānaqīn shows an AQI of 141 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Khānaqīn today?
At AQI 141 (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 Khānaqīn been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Khānaqīn's daily AQI at 86 on average, from 75 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 9. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Khānaqīn lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Khānaqīn 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 Khānaqīn?
Khānaqīn has an estimated 50,580 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 16.1% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Khānaqīn need?
Khānaqīn needs roughly 59,376 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,306 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Khānaqīn'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 Khanaqin; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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