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Mandera Air quality today
Air quality in Mandera currently reads AQI 31 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 31
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.8
- tree cover
- 10.8%
- trees in this area
- 33.9K
- more trees needed
- 60.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bulla Jamhuri, Mandera, Kenya (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mandera · AQI 31 (Good)
Mandera's tree count comes to 33,929 trees across 12.57 km², 19 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 60,319 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mandera today: AQI 31, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
6.8
PM10
7.7
NO₂
2.7
O₃
33.0
SO₂
0.8
CO
216.0
- 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 Mandera's daily AQI at 37 on average, from 24 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 67 on Nov 4.
Where Mandera stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mandera: Critically low
10.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
33,929
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
60,319
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,327 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mandera lost?
There was almost no forest around Mandera 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 January 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 Mandera right now?
The latest reading for Mandera shows an AQI of 31 (Good), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Mandera today?
At AQI 31 (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 Mandera been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mandera's daily AQI at 37 on average, from 24 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 67 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mandera lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mandera 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 Mandera?
Mandera has an estimated 33,929 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 10.8% tree cover, 19 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mandera need?
Mandera needs roughly 60,319 more trees to close a 19-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,327 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mandera'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 Bulla Jamhuri; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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