City report · Maldives
Male Air quality today
Air quality in Male currently reads AQI 37 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 37
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.6
- tree cover
- 8.5%
- trees in this area
- 4.2K
- more trees needed
- 10.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Machangolhi, Malé, Maldives (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Jul 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Male · AQI 37 (Good)
Male's tree count comes to 4,246 trees across 2 km² of land, 21 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 10,740 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Male today: AQI 37, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 22:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Siththimaavaa Hingun, 300 m away
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
6.6
PM10
—
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Maiha Hameed
- 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 Male's daily AQI at 13 on average, from 6 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 52 on Nov 5.
Where Male stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Male: Critically low
8.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 2 km² of land.
Trees in this area
4,246
Target trees
14,986
More trees needed
10,740
CO₂ if planted / yr
236.3 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Male lost?
There was almost no forest around Male 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 April 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 Male right now?
The latest reading for Male shows an AQI of 37 (Good), measured Nov 11, 22:00 local time by the Siththimaavaa Hingun ground monitoring station, 300 m away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Male today?
At AQI 37 (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 Male been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Male's daily AQI at 13 on average, from 6 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 52 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 Male lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Male 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 Male?
Male has an estimated 4,246 trees across the 2 km² of land measured — 8.5% tree cover, 21 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Male need?
Male needs roughly 10,740 more trees to close a 21-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 236.3 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Male's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Machangolhi, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Machangolhi; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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