City report · Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia
Makkah Air quality today
Air quality in Makkah currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 53
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.5
- tree cover
- 0.1%
- trees in this area
- 314
- more trees needed
- 93.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Masjid al-Haram, Al Haram, Makkah 24231, 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.
Makkah · AQI 53 (Moderate)
Makkah's tree count comes to 314 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 93,934 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Makkah today: AQI 53, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 07:00 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
10.5
PM10
14.2
NO₂
16.5
O₃
43.0
SO₂
31.5
CO
193.0
- 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 Makkah's daily AQI at 98 on average, from 57 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5.
Where Makkah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Makkah: Critically low
0.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
314
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
93,934
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,067 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Makkah lost?
There was almost no forest around Makkah 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Makkah
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Sabt Alalayah303.1 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 65
- Bīshah329.7 km
Saudi Arabia
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 64
- Port Sudan338.1 km
Sudan
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 53
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Makkah right now?
The latest reading for Makkah shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 07:00 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 Makkah today?
At AQI 53 (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 Makkah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Makkah's daily AQI at 98 on average, from 57 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Makkah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Makkah 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 Makkah?
Makkah has an estimated 314 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.1% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Makkah need?
Makkah needs roughly 93,934 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,067 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Makkah'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 Masjid al-Haram; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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