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Marsá Maţrūḩ Air quality today
Air quality in Marsá Maţrūḩ currently reads AQI 19 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 19
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 3.4
- tree cover
- 0.5%
- trees in this area
- 1.2K
- more trees needed
- 69.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Marsa Matruh, Mersa Matruh, Marsa Matrouh Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Marsá Maţrūḩ · AQI 19 (Good)
Marsá Maţrūḩ's tree count comes to 1,170 trees across 9.36 km² of land, 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 69,044 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Marsá Maţrūḩ today: AQI 19, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 15:00 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
3.4
PM10
6.0
NO₂
1.2
O₃
93.0
SO₂
1.6
CO
133.0
- 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 Marsá Maţrūḩ's daily AQI at 28 on average, from 21 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 59 on Nov 4.
Where Marsá Maţrūḩ stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Marsá Maţrūḩ: Critically low
0.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.36 km² of land.
Trees in this area
1,170
Target trees
70,214
More trees needed
69,044
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,519 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Marsá Maţrūḩ lost?
There was almost no forest around Marsá Maţrūḩ 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 August 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Alexandria255.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 93
- Kafr ad Dawwār276.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 18%
- Air quality
- 109
- Idkū290.8 km
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- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 54
- Rosetta301.9 km
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- Tree cover
- 43%
- Air quality
- 60
- Damanhur309.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 8%
- Air quality
- 60
- Tobruk321.2 km
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- Tree cover
- 0%
- Air quality
- 27
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Questions about Marsá Maţrūḩ
What is the air quality (AQI) in Marsá Maţrūḩ right now?
The latest reading for Marsá Maţrūḩ shows an AQI of 19 (Good), observed Nov 10, 15:00 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 Marsá Maţrūḩ today?
At AQI 19 (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 Marsá Maţrūḩ been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Marsá Maţrūḩ's daily AQI at 28 on average, from 21 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 59 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 Marsá Maţrūḩ lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Marsá Maţrūḩ 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 Marsá Maţrūḩ?
Marsá Maţrūḩ has an estimated 1,170 trees across the 9.36 km² of land measured — 0.5% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Marsá Maţrūḩ need?
Marsá Maţrūḩ needs roughly 69,044 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,519 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Marsá Maţrūḩ'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 Marsa Matruh; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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