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Luxor Air quality today
Air quality in Luxor currently reads AQI 157 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 157
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 50.3
- tree cover
- 23.1%
- trees in this area
- 62.8K
- more trees needed
- 46.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Luxor, Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Luxor · AQI 157 (Unhealthy)
Luxor's tree count comes to 62,846 trees across 10.89 km² of land, 17 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 45,978 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Luxor today: AQI 157, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
50.3
PM10
185.8
NO₂
4.0
O₃
74.0
SO₂
6.1
CO
157.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Luxor's daily AQI at 135 on average, from 91 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 182 on Nov 8.
Where Luxor stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Luxor: Critically low
23.1% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 10.89 km² of land.
Trees in this area
62,846
Target trees
108,824
More trees needed
45,978
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,012 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Luxor lost?
There was almost no forest around Luxor 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 November 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 181 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 288 ha
- Overall change
- +107 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Luxor grew from about 181 hectares to 288 hectares, a net gain of about 107 hectares (+59%). New forest grew on about 108 hectares, while under 1 hectare was 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 Luxor right now?
The latest reading for Luxor shows an AQI of 157 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Luxor today?
At AQI 157 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Luxor been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Luxor's daily AQI at 135 on average, from 91 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 182 on Nov 8. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Luxor lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Luxor 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 Luxor grew from about 181 hectares to 288 hectares, a net gain of about 107 hectares (+59%). New forest grew on about 108 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Luxor?
Luxor has an estimated 62,846 trees across the 10.89 km² of land measured — 23.1% tree cover, 17 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Luxor need?
Luxor needs roughly 45,978 more trees to close a 17-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,012 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Luxor'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 Luxor; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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