City report · Davao Region, Philippines
Malita Air quality today
Air quality in Malita currently reads AQI 4 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 4
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 0.8
- tree cover
- 55.2%
- trees in this area
- 75.4K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Poblacion, Malita, Davao Occidental, Philippines (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Malita · AQI 4 (Good)
Malita's tree count comes to 75,436 trees across 5.47 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Malita today: AQI 4, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Davao City and Panabo
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
0.8
PM10
4.6
NO₂
2.4
O₃
51.0
SO₂
1.0
CO
135.0
- 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 Malita's daily AQI at 21 on average, from 14 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 44 on Nov 7.
Where Malita stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Malita: Healthy tree cover
55.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 5.47 km² of land.
Trees in this area
75,436
Target trees
75,436
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Malita lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Malita has lost about 385 hectares of forest (about 540 football pitches): 4.6% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (76%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from May 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km northwest of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 385 haabout 540 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 4.6%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 291 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2016, when about 29 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 ha | 6 ha | 17 ha |
| 2002 | 6 ha | 3 ha | 8 ha |
| 2003 | 14 ha | under 1 ha | 15 ha |
| 2004 | 16 ha | 7 ha | 23 ha |
| 2005 | 9 ha | 4 ha | 13 ha |
| 2006 | 12 ha | 10 ha | 22 ha |
| 2007 | 9 ha | 4 ha | 13 ha |
| 2008 | 4 ha | 4 ha | 8 ha |
| 2009 | 14 ha | 7 ha | 20 ha |
| 2010 | 15 ha | 11 ha | 26 ha |
| 2011 | 7 ha | 2 ha | 10 ha |
| 2012 | 9 ha | 6 ha | 15 ha |
| 2013 | 12 ha | 3 ha | 15 ha |
| 2014 | 11 ha | 6 ha | 16 ha |
| 2015 | 23 ha | 2 ha | 25 ha |
| 2016 | 26 ha | 2 ha | 29 ha |
| 2017 | 18 ha | 4 ha | 22 ha |
| 2018 | 12 ha | under 1 ha | 12 ha |
| 2019 | 10 ha | under 1 ha | 11 ha |
| 2020 | 11 ha | 2 ha | 13 ha |
| 2021 | 12 ha | 1 ha | 13 ha |
| 2022 | 8 ha | 2 ha | 10 ha |
| 2023 | 11 ha | 3 ha | 14 ha |
| 2024 | 8 ha | 4 ha | 12 ha |
| 2025 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Malita?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good74% · 285 ha
- Shifting farmingcan grow back20% · 77 ha
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back2.1% · 8 ha
Also: towns and roads, logging, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 12,300 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 12,200 ha
- Overall change
- −124 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Malita stayed about the same size, at about 12,200 hectares: new forest grew on about 114 hectares, and about 238 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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- Koronadal85.1 km
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- Air quality
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- Mati89.8 km
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- Panabo99.6 km
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Malita right now?
The latest reading for Malita shows an AQI of 4 (Good), observed Nov 11, 17:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Malita today?
At AQI 4 (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 Malita been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Malita's daily AQI at 21 on average, from 14 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 44 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Malita lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Malita has lost about 385 hectares of forest (about 540 football pitches): 4.6% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (76%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Malita stayed about the same size, at about 12,200 hectares: new forest grew on about 114 hectares, and about 238 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Malita?
Malita has an estimated 75,436 trees across the 5.47 km² of land measured — 55.2% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Malita need?
Malita has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Malita'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 Poblacion; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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