City report · Minya, Egypt
Maghāghah Air quality today
Air quality in Maghāghah currently reads AQI 276 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 276
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 226.2
- tree cover
- 19.4%
- trees in this area
- 55.8K
- more trees needed
- 73.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Maghagha, Madinet Maghaghah, Maghagha, Minya 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.
Maghāghah · AQI 276 (Very unhealthy)
Maghāghah's tree count comes to 55,766 trees across 11.5 km² of land, 26 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 73,589 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Maghāghah today: AQI 276, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 205 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
226.2
PM10
570.0
NO₂
5.6
O₃
87.0
SO₂
10.6
CO
141.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Maghāghah's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 93 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 194 on Nov 10.
Where Maghāghah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Maghāghah: Critically low
19.4% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.5 km² of land.
Trees in this area
55,766
Target trees
129,355
More trees needed
73,589
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,619 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Maghāghah lost?
There was almost no forest around Maghāghah 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 September 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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- Al Fashn20.3 km
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- Tree cover
- 23%
- Air quality
- 276
- Samālūţ39.5 km
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- Air quality
- 1068
- Banī Suwayf53.6 km
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- Air quality
- 258
- Būsh62.2 km
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- Air quality
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- Minya62.3 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
- 1039
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Maghāghah right now?
The latest reading for Maghāghah shows an AQI of 276 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 11:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 205 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Maghāghah today?
At AQI 276 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Maghāghah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Maghāghah's daily AQI at 136 on average, from 93 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 194 on Nov 10. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Maghāghah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Maghāghah 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 Maghāghah?
Maghāghah has an estimated 55,766 trees across the 11.5 km² of land measured — 19.4% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Maghāghah need?
Maghāghah needs roughly 73,589 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,619 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Maghāghah'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 Maghagha; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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