City report · Lesotho
Mafeteng Air quality today
Air quality in Mafeteng currently reads AQI 13 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 13
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 1.8
- tree cover
- 4.0%
- trees in this area
- 12.4K
- more trees needed
- 80.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mafeteng, Lesotho (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 12, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mafeteng · AQI 13 (Good)
Mafeteng's tree count comes to 12,428 trees across 12.43 km² of land, 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 80,783 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mafeteng today: AQI 13, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
1.8
PM10
1.9
NO₂
0.4
O₃
99.0
SO₂
1.1
CO
111.0
- 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 Mafeteng's daily AQI at 23 on average, from 10 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 54 on Nov 5.
Where Mafeteng stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mafeteng: Critically low
4.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.43 km² of land.
Trees in this area
12,428
Target trees
93,211
More trees needed
80,783
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,777 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mafeteng lost?
There was almost no forest around Mafeteng 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 June 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Bloemfontein126.1 km
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- Air quality
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- Butha-Buthe153.1 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Mafeteng right now?
The latest reading for Mafeteng shows an AQI of 13 (Good), observed Nov 11, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Mafeteng today?
At AQI 13 (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 Mafeteng been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mafeteng's daily AQI at 23 on average, from 10 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 54 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mafeteng lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mafeteng 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 Mafeteng?
Mafeteng has an estimated 12,428 trees across the 12.43 km² of land measured — 4.0% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mafeteng need?
Mafeteng needs roughly 80,783 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,777 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mafeteng'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 Mafeteng; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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