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Lomé Air quality today
Air quality in Lomé currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 53
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.5
- tree cover
- 10.6%
- trees in this area
- 26.4K
- more trees needed
- 48.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Lomé, Togo (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 9, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Lomé · AQI 53 (Moderate)
Lomé's tree count comes to 26,374 trees across 9.96 km² of land, 19 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 48,270 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Lomé today: AQI 53, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 6 station cities within 205 km, e.g. Tema and Madina
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
10.5
PM10
16.2
NO₂
1.4
O₃
65.0
SO₂
0.7
CO
173.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Lomé's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 43 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 61 on Nov 9.
Where Lomé stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Lomé: Critically low
10.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.96 km² of land.
Trees in this area
26,374
Target trees
74,644
More trees needed
48,270
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,062 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Lomé lost?
There was very little forest around Lomé in 2000, about 11 hectares, and about 5 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 January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
The worst year was 2009, when about 3 hectares 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 | under 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 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 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 Lomé?
- Towns and roadscleared for good89% · 4 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good6.4% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown2.1% · 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Lomé right now?
The latest reading for Lomé shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 6 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Lomé today?
At AQI 53 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Lomé been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Lomé's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 43 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 61 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Lomé lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Lomé in 2000, about 11 hectares, and about 5 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 Lomé?
Lomé has an estimated 26,374 trees across the 9.96 km² of land measured — 10.6% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Lomé need?
Lomé needs roughly 48,270 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,062 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Lomé'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 Lomé; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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