City report · Minya, Egypt
Mallawī Air quality today
Air quality in Mallawī currently reads AQI 223 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 223
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 126.7
- tree cover
- 14.3%
- trees in this area
- 44.7K
- more trees needed
- 96.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mallawi, Qesm Melawi, Mallawi, 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.
Mallawī · AQI 223 (Very unhealthy)
Mallawī's tree count comes to 44,745 trees across 12.52 km² of land, 31 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 96,061 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mallawī today: AQI 223, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
126.7
PM10
881.0
NO₂
6.5
O₃
76.0
SO₂
8.6
CO
142.0
- 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 Mallawī's daily AQI at 219 on average, from 169 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 350 on Nov 10.
Where Mallawī stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mallawī: Critically low
14.3% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.52 km² of land.
Trees in this area
44,745
Target trees
140,806
More trees needed
96,061
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,113 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mallawī lost?
There was almost no forest around Mallawī 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 July 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 Mallawī right now?
The latest reading for Mallawī shows an AQI of 223 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 10:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Mallawī today?
At AQI 223 (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 Mallawī been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mallawī's daily AQI at 219 on average, from 169 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 350 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mallawī lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mallawī 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 Mallawī?
Mallawī has an estimated 44,745 trees across the 12.52 km² of land measured — 14.3% tree cover, 31 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mallawī need?
Mallawī needs roughly 96,061 more trees to close a 31-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,113 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mallawī'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 Mallawi; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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