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Laayoune Air quality today
Air quality in Laayoune currently reads AQI 25 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 25
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.4
- tree cover
- 0.1%
- trees in this area
- 314
- more trees needed
- 93.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Laayoune, Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra (EH-partial), Morocco (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 13, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Laayoune · AQI 25 (Good)
Laayoune's tree count comes to 314 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 93,934 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Laayoune today: AQI 25, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Telde and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
3.4
PM10
25.6
NO₂
0.6
O₃
53.0
SO₂
0.9
CO
104.0
- 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 Laayoune's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 41 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 8.
Where Laayoune stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Laayoune: Critically low
0.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
314
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
93,934
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,067 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Laayoune lost?
There was almost no forest around Laayoune 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 January 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 Laayoune right now?
The latest reading for Laayoune shows an AQI of 25 (Good), observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Laayoune today?
At AQI 25 (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 Laayoune been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Laayoune's daily AQI at 62 on average, from 41 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 8. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Laayoune lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Laayoune 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 Laayoune?
Laayoune has an estimated 314 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.1% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Laayoune need?
Laayoune needs roughly 93,934 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,067 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Laayoune'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 Laayoune; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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