City report · Medina Region, Saudi Arabia
Madinah Air quality today
Air quality in Madinah currently reads AQI 175 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 175
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 102.0
- tree cover
- 1.6%
- trees in this area
- 5.0K
- more trees needed
- 121K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Haram, Madinah Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 17, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Madinah · AQI 175 (Unhealthy)
Madinah's tree count comes to 5,027 trees across 12.57 km², 38 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 120,637 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Madinah today: AQI 175, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 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
102.0
PM10
312.0
NO₂
18.2
O₃
59.0
SO₂
16.0
CO
178.0
- 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 Madinah's daily AQI at 96 on average, from 70 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 197 on Nov 10.
Where Madinah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Madinah: Critically low
1.6% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
5,027
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
120,637
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,654 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Madinah lost?
There was almost no forest around Madinah 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.
2018: satellite photo from July 2018 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 246 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 293 ha
- Overall change
- +47 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Madinah grew from about 246 hectares to 293 hectares, a net gain of about 47 hectares (+19%). New forest grew on about 46 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 Madinah right now?
The latest reading for Madinah shows an AQI of 175 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 22:00 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 Madinah today?
At AQI 175 (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 Madinah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Madinah's daily AQI at 96 on average, from 70 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 197 on Nov 10. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Madinah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Madinah 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 Madinah grew from about 246 hectares to 293 hectares, a net gain of about 47 hectares (+19%). New forest grew on about 46 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Madinah?
Madinah has an estimated 5,027 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.6% tree cover, 38 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Madinah need?
Madinah needs roughly 120,637 more trees to close a 38-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,654 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Madinah'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 Al Haram; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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