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Marbella Air quality today
Air quality in Marbella currently reads AQI 44 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 44
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 9.0
- tree cover
- 30.2%
- trees in this area
- 74.8K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Marbella Center, Marbella, Province of Málaga, Spain (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Marbella · AQI 44 (Good)
Marbella's tree count comes to 74,762 trees across 9.91 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Marbella today: AQI 44, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 7 station cities within 225 km, e.g. Gibraltar and Algeciras
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
9.0
PM10
9.8
NO₂
6.6
O₃
48.0
SO₂
1.4
CO
120.0
- 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 Marbella's daily AQI at 33 on average, from 27 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 52 on Nov 7.
Where Marbella stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Marbella: Healthy tree cover
30.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.91 km² of land.
Trees in this area
74,762
Target trees
74,762
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Marbella lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Marbella has lost about 620 hectares of forest (about 870 football pitches): 9.1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to wildfires, so much of it can grow back. About 60 hectares (9.6%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 620 haabout 870 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 9.1%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 60 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2012, when about 295 hectares of forest were lost, mostly to wildfires.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 ha | 30 ha | 34 ha |
| 2002 | 3 ha | 13 ha | 16 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | 6 ha | 7 ha |
| 2004 | 5 ha | 14 ha | 19 ha |
| 2005 | 9 ha | 9 ha | 18 ha |
| 2006 | 3 ha | 26 ha | 28 ha |
| 2007 | 1 ha | 19 ha | 21 ha |
| 2008 | 3 ha | 17 ha | 20 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | 14 ha | 14 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 4 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | 37 ha | 37 ha |
| 2012 | 11 ha | 284 ha | 295 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | 39 ha | 39 ha |
| 2014 | 2 ha | 2 ha | 4 ha |
| 2015 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2017 | 2 ha | 3 ha | 5 ha |
| 2018 | 1 ha | 16 ha | 18 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2020 | 3 ha | 2 ha | 6 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 3 ha |
| 2022 | 3 ha | 3 ha | 5 ha |
| 2023 | 1 ha | 10 ha | 11 ha |
| 2024 | 1 ha | 5 ha | 6 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | 6 ha | 6 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Marbella?
- Wildfirescan grow back82% · 508 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good7.9% · 49 ha
- Loggingcan grow back7.7% · 48 ha
Also: mining and energy, farms, pasture and plantations, 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
- 10,000 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 10,100 ha
- Overall change
- +95 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Marbella stayed about the same size, at about 10,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 265 hectares, and about 170 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Marbella right now?
The latest reading for Marbella shows an AQI of 44 (Good), observed Nov 11, 07:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 7 ground-station cities within 225 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Marbella today?
At AQI 44 (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 Marbella been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Marbella's daily AQI at 33 on average, from 27 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 52 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 Marbella lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Marbella has lost about 620 hectares of forest (about 870 football pitches): 9.1% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to wildfires, so much of it can grow back. About 60 hectares (9.6%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Marbella stayed about the same size, at about 10,100 hectares: new forest grew on about 265 hectares, and about 170 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Marbella?
Marbella has an estimated 74,762 trees across the 9.91 km² of land measured — 30.2% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Marbella need?
Marbella has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Marbella'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 Marbella Center; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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