City report · Minya, Egypt
Minya Air quality today
Air quality in Minya currently reads AQI 1039 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
AQI 1039
Air quality right now
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 635.1
- tree cover
- 13.6%
- trees in this area
- 37.7K
- more trees needed
- 87.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Minya, Qism Minya, Minya, Minya Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Minya · AQI 1039 (Hazardous)
Minya's tree count comes to 37,684 trees across 11.09 km² of land, 31 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 87,006 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Minya today: AQI 1039, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 250 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 250 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
635.1
PM10
1460.3
NO₂
11.3
O₃
88.0
SO₂
8.7
CO
174.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Minya's daily AQI at 187 on average, from 151 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 292 on Nov 10.
Where Minya stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Minya: Critically low
13.6% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.09 km² of land.
Trees in this area
37,684
Target trees
124,690
More trees needed
87,006
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,914 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Minya lost?
There was almost no forest around Minya 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 September 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 Minya right now?
The latest reading for Minya shows an AQI of 1039 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 250 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Minya today?
At AQI 1039 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Minya been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Minya's daily AQI at 187 on average, from 151 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 292 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Minya lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Minya 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 Minya?
Minya has an estimated 37,684 trees across the 11.09 km² of land measured — 13.6% tree cover, 31 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Minya need?
Minya needs roughly 87,006 more trees to close a 31-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 1,914 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Minya'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 Minya; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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