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Kuwait City Air quality today
Air quality in Kuwait City currently reads AQI 40 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 40
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.9
- tree cover
- 4.9%
- trees in this area
- 13.4K
- more trees needed
- 68.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Block 1, Kuwait City, Kuwait (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 18, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Kuwait City · AQI 40 (Good)
Kuwait City's tree count comes to 13,439 trees across 10.97 km² of land, 25 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 68,840 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Kuwait City today: AQI 40, Good
Main pollutant: PM10 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Al-Shuwaikh, Kuwait (الشويخ), 6.8 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.9
PM10
43.2
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Environmental Monitoring Information System of Kuwait (eMISK)
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kuwait City's daily AQI at 152 on average, from 117 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 221 on Nov 7.
Where Kuwait City stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Kuwait City: Critically low
4.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.97 km² of land.
Trees in this area
13,439
Target trees
82,279
More trees needed
68,840
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,514 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Kuwait City lost?
There was almost no forest around Kuwait City 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 October 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Kuwait City right now?
The latest reading for Kuwait City shows an AQI of 40 (Good), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Al-Shuwaikh, Kuwait (الشويخ), 6.8 km away). The main pollutant is PM10. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Kuwait City today?
At AQI 40 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Kuwait City been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Kuwait City's daily AQI at 152 on average, from 117 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 221 on Nov 7. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Kuwait City lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City?
Kuwait City has an estimated 13,439 trees across the 10.97 km² of land measured — 4.9% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Kuwait City need?
Kuwait City needs roughly 68,840 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,514 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Kuwait City's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Block 1, 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 Block 1; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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