City report · Aswan, Egypt
Kom Ombo Air quality today
Air quality in Kom Ombo currently reads AQI 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 111
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 33.3
- tree cover
- 29.3%
- trees in this area
- 92.0K
- more trees needed
- 17.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Kom Ombo, Markaz Kom Ombo, Aswan Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kom Ombo · AQI 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Kom Ombo's tree count comes to 92,049 trees across 12.57 km², 6 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 17,907 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kom Ombo today: AQI 111, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
33.3
PM10
144.4
NO₂
0.6
O₃
111.0
SO₂
4.2
CO
134.0
- 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 Kom Ombo's daily AQI at 143 on average, from 101 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 217 on Nov 11.
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kom Ombo: Below target
29.3% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
92,049
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
17,907
CO₂ if planted / yr
394.0 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kom Ombo lost?
There was almost no forest around Kom Ombo 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 September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 789 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 969 ha
- Overall change
- +180 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kom Ombo grew from about 789 hectares to 969 hectares, a net gain of about 180 hectares (+23%). New forest grew on about 180 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kom Ombo right now?
The latest reading for Kom Ombo shows an AQI of 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Kom Ombo today?
At AQI 111 (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 Kom Ombo been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kom Ombo's daily AQI at 143 on average, from 101 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 217 on Nov 11. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kom Ombo lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kom Ombo 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Kom Ombo grew from about 789 hectares to 969 hectares, a net gain of about 180 hectares (+23%). New forest grew on about 180 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Kom Ombo?
Kom Ombo has an estimated 92,049 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 29.3% tree cover, 6 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kom Ombo need?
Kom Ombo needs roughly 17,907 more trees to close a 6-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 394.0 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kom Ombo'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 Kom Ombo; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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