City report · West Azerbaijan, Iran
Mahābād Air quality today
Air quality in Mahābād currently reads AQI 66 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 66
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 17.2
- tree cover
- 7.8%
- trees in this area
- 24.1K
- more trees needed
- 68.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around سابلاغ، مهاباد، استان آذربایجان غربی، Iran (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mahābād · AQI 66 (Moderate)
Mahābād's tree count comes to 24,088 trees across 12.36 km² of land, 22 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 68,558 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mahābād today: AQI 66, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
17.2
PM10
21.5
NO₂
32.9
O₃
31.0
SO₂
9.1
CO
297.0
- 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 Mahābād's daily AQI at 39 on average, from 22 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 11.
Where Mahābād stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mahābād: Critically low
7.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.36 km² of land.
Trees in this area
24,088
Target trees
92,646
More trees needed
68,558
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,508 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mahābād lost?
There was almost no forest around Mahābād 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Mahābād right now?
The latest reading for Mahābād shows an AQI of 66 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 01:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Mahābād today?
At AQI 66 (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 Mahābād been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mahābād's daily AQI at 39 on average, from 22 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 11. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mahābād lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mahābād 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 Mahābād?
Mahābād has an estimated 24,088 trees across the 12.36 km² of land measured — 7.8% tree cover, 22 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mahābād need?
Mahābād needs roughly 68,558 more trees to close a 22-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,508 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mahābād'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 سابلاغ، مهاباد، استان آذربایجان غربی، Iran; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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