City report · Canary Islands, Spain
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Air quality today
Air quality in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria currently reads AQI 22 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 22
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.0
- tree cover
- 6.4%
- trees in this area
- 10.9K
- more trees needed
- 40.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · AQI 22 (Good)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's tree count comes to 10,918 trees across 6.83 km² of land, 24 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 40,259 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria today: AQI 22, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · SAN NICOLÁS, 700 m away · median of 6 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
4.0
PM10
13.0
NO₂
7.0
O₃
42.0
SO₂
4.0
CO
400.0
Data: OpenAQ · EEA
- 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's daily AQI at 44 on average, from 34 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 57 on Nov 8.
Where Las Palmas de Gran Canaria stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Critically low
6.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 6.83 km² of land.
Trees in this area
10,918
Target trees
51,177
More trees needed
40,259
CO₂ if planted / yr
885.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Las Palmas de Gran Canaria lost?
There was almost no forest around Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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 March 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,120 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,210 ha
- Overall change
- +92 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Las Palmas de Gran Canaria grew from about 1,120 hectares to 1,210 hectares, a net gain of about 92 hectares (+8.2%). New forest grew on about 96 hectares, while 5 hectares were 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria right now?
The latest reading for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria shows an AQI of 22 (Good), measured Nov 11, 14:00 local time by 6 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is SAN NICOLÁS, 700 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria today?
At AQI 22 (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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's daily AQI at 44 on average, from 34 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 57 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria grew from about 1,120 hectares to 1,210 hectares, a net gain of about 92 hectares (+8.2%). New forest grew on about 96 hectares, while 5 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has an estimated 10,918 trees across the 6.83 km² of land measured — 6.4% tree cover, 24 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Las Palmas de Gran Canaria need?
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria needs roughly 40,259 more trees to close a 24-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 885.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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