City report · Norfolk Island
Kingston Air quality today
Air quality in Kingston currently reads AQI 52 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 52
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 9.7
- tree cover
- 96.1%
- trees in this area
- 187K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kingston, Norfolk Island (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 6, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kingston · AQI 52 (Moderate)
Kingston's tree count comes to 187,484 trees across 7.81 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kingston today: AQI 52, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 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
9.7
PM10
16.9
NO₂
0.0
O₃
38.0
SO₂
0.3
CO
58.0
- 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 Kingston's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 37 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 60 on Nov 6.
Where Kingston stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kingston: Healthy tree cover
96.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 7.81 km² of land.
Trees in this area
187,484
Target trees
187,484
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kingston lost?
There was almost no forest around Kingston 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.
2022: satellite photo from June 2022 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.
- Nouméa769.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 27%
- Air quality
- 38
- Auckland1073.2 km
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- Tree cover
- 23%
- Air quality
- 52
- Manukau City1092.2 km
New Zealand
- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 57
- Hamilton1183.6 km
New Zealand
- Tree cover
- 27%
- Air quality
- 45
- Tauranga1224.0 km
New Zealand
- Tree cover
- 23%
- Air quality
- 23
- Port-Vila1259.0 km
Vanuatu
- Tree cover
- 52%
- Air quality
- 52
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kingston right now?
The latest reading for Kingston shows an AQI of 52 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 19:00 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 Kingston today?
At AQI 52 (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 Kingston been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kingston's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 37 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 60 on Nov 6. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kingston lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kingston 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 Kingston?
Kingston has an estimated 187,484 trees across the 7.81 km² of land measured — 96.1% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kingston need?
Kingston has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Kingston'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 Kingston; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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