City report · Razavi Khorasan, Iran
Mashhad Air quality today
Air quality in Mashhad currently reads AQI 23 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 23
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 5.7
- tree cover
- 5.1%
- trees in this area
- 16.0K
- more trees needed
- 78.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mashhad · AQI 23 (Good)
Mashhad's tree count comes to 16,022 trees across 12.57 km², 25 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 78,226 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mashhad today: AQI 23, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 05:30 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
5.7
PM10
7.8
NO₂
24.3
O₃
42.0
SO₂
7.3
CO
608.0
- 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 Mashhad's daily AQI at 80 on average, from 14 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 7.
Where Mashhad stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mashhad: Critically low
5.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
16,022
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
78,226
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,721 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mashhad lost?
There was almost no forest around Mashhad 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 200 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 348 ha
- Overall change
- +148 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Mashhad grew from about 200 hectares to 348 hectares, a net gain of about 148 hectares (+74%). New forest grew on about 150 hectares, while 2 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 Mashhad right now?
The latest reading for Mashhad shows an AQI of 23 (Good), observed Nov 11, 05:30 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 Mashhad today?
At AQI 23 (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 Mashhad been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mashhad's daily AQI at 80 on average, from 14 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 161 on Nov 7. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mashhad lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mashhad 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Mashhad grew from about 200 hectares to 348 hectares, a net gain of about 148 hectares (+74%). New forest grew on about 150 hectares, while 2 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Mashhad?
Mashhad has an estimated 16,022 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 5.1% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mashhad need?
Mashhad needs roughly 78,226 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,721 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mashhad'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 Mashhad; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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