City report · Mardin, Turkey
Kızıltepe Air quality today
Air quality in Kızıltepe currently reads AQI 156 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 156
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 62.4
- tree cover
- 3.2%
- trees in this area
- 10.1K
- more trees needed
- 116K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kızıltepe, Mardin, Türkiye (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 20, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kızıltepe · AQI 156 (Unhealthy)
Kızıltepe's tree count comes to 10,053 trees across 12.57 km², 37 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 115,611 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kızıltepe today: AQI 156, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 185 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 185 km, e.g. Diyarbakır and Silopi
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
62.4
PM10
21.0
NO₂
12.6
O₃
37.0
SO₂
4.1
CO
283.0
- 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 Kızıltepe's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 21 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 90 on Nov 4.
Where Kızıltepe stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kızıltepe: Critically low
3.2% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
10,053
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
115,611
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,543 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kızıltepe lost?
There was almost no forest around Kızıltepe 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 August 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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Measured cities near Kızıltepe
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Mardin20.2 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 76
- Al Qāmishlī60.0 km
Syria
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 58
- Viranşehir72.9 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 136
- Al Ḩasakah77.8 km
Syria
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 39
- Diyarbakır86.7 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 11%
- Air quality
- 84
- Batman91.8 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 83
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kızıltepe right now?
The latest reading for Kızıltepe shows an AQI of 156 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 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 Kızıltepe today?
At AQI 156 (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 Kızıltepe been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kızıltepe's daily AQI at 48 on average, from 21 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 90 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kızıltepe lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kızıltepe 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 Kızıltepe?
Kızıltepe has an estimated 10,053 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.2% tree cover, 37 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kızıltepe need?
Kızıltepe needs roughly 115,611 more trees to close a 37-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,543 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kızıltepe'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 Kızıltepe; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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