City report · Somalia
Mogadishu Air quality today
Air quality in Mogadishu currently reads AQI 32 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 32
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 5.7
- tree cover
- 3.3%
- trees in this area
- 7.3K
- more trees needed
- 59.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shangaani, Mogadishu, Somalia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 31, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mogadishu · AQI 32 (Good)
Mogadishu's tree count comes to 7,288 trees across 8.84 km² of land, 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 58,968 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mogadishu today: AQI 32, 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
5.7
PM10
8.1
NO₂
0.8
O₃
32.0
SO₂
0.6
CO
125.0
- 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 Mogadishu's daily AQI at 46 on average, from 32 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 65 on Nov 5.
Where Mogadishu stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mogadishu: Critically low
3.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 8.84 km² of land.
Trees in this area
7,288
Target trees
66,256
More trees needed
58,968
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,297 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mogadishu lost?
There was almost no forest around Mogadishu 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
- 33
- Mandera441.1 km
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- 11%
- Air quality
- 31
- Cabudwaaq478.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 17
- Warder549.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 0%
- Air quality
- 9
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Mogadishu right now?
The latest reading for Mogadishu shows an AQI of 32 (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 Mogadishu today?
At AQI 32 (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 Mogadishu been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mogadishu's daily AQI at 46 on average, from 32 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 65 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mogadishu lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mogadishu 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 Mogadishu?
Mogadishu has an estimated 7,288 trees across the 8.84 km² of land measured — 3.3% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mogadishu need?
Mogadishu needs roughly 58,968 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,297 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mogadishu'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 Shangaani; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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