City report · Baja California Sur, Mexico
La Paz Air quality today
Air quality in La Paz currently reads AQI 47 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 47
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 9.7
- tree cover
- 3.9%
- trees in this area
- 12.1K
- more trees needed
- 81.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Pueblo Nuevo, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
La Paz · AQI 47 (Good)
La Paz's tree count comes to 12,130 trees across 12.44 km² of land, 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 81,176 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in La Paz today: AQI 47, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
9.7
PM10
11.6
NO₂
20.7
O₃
33.0
SO₂
2.4
CO
232.0
- 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 La Paz's daily AQI at 32 on average, from 20 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 57 on Nov 10.
Where La Paz stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in La Paz: Critically low
3.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.44 km² of land.
Trees in this area
12,130
Target trees
93,306
More trees needed
81,176
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,786 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has La Paz lost?
There was very little forest around La Paz in 2000, about 10 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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 November 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2001, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around La Paz?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good47% · under 1 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good24% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown29% · under 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Los Mochis226.2 km
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- Air quality
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- Culiacán304.4 km
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- Air quality
- 27
- Navojoa337.1 km
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in La Paz right now?
The latest reading for La Paz shows an AQI of 47 (Good), observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in La Paz today?
At AQI 47 (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 La Paz been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put La Paz's daily AQI at 32 on average, from 20 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 57 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around La Paz lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around La Paz in 2000, about 10 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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 La Paz?
La Paz has an estimated 12,130 trees across the 12.44 km² of land measured — 3.9% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does La Paz need?
La Paz needs roughly 81,176 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,786 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are La Paz'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 Pueblo Nuevo; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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