City report · Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Khobar Air quality today
Air quality in Khobar currently reads AQI 98 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 98
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 34.1
- tree cover
- 1.5%
- trees in this area
- 4.2K
- more trees needed
- 80.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Khobar Al Janubiyah, Al Khobar Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Khobar · AQI 98 (Moderate)
Khobar's tree count comes to 4,232 trees across 11.29 km² of land, 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 80,403 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Khobar today: AQI 98, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Alkhobar - Ar Rakkah | الخبر - الراكة, 8.1 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
34.1
PM10
—
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Yahya Alarfaj, Homer Simpson
- 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 Khobar's daily AQI at 84 on average, from 70 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 156 on Nov 8.
Where Khobar stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Khobar: Critically low
1.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.29 km² of land.
Trees in this area
4,232
Target trees
84,635
More trees needed
80,403
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,769 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Khobar lost?
There was almost no forest around Khobar 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.
2018: satellite photo from August 2018 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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Questions about Khobar
What is the air quality (AQI) in Khobar right now?
The latest reading for Khobar shows an AQI of 98 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Alkhobar - Ar Rakkah | الخبر - الراكة, 8.1 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Khobar today?
At AQI 98 (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 Khobar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Khobar's daily AQI at 84 on average, from 70 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 156 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 Khobar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Khobar 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 Khobar?
Khobar has an estimated 4,232 trees across the 11.29 km² of land measured — 1.5% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Khobar need?
Khobar needs roughly 80,403 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,769 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Khobar's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Al Khobar Al Janubiyah, 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 Al Khobar Al Janubiyah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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