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Musaffah Air quality today
Air quality in Musaffah currently reads AQI 224 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 224
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 36.7
- tree cover
- 0.2%
- trees in this area
- 625
- more trees needed
- 140K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Musaffah - M17 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Musaffah · AQI 224 (Very unhealthy)
Musaffah's tree count comes to 625 trees across 12.51 km² of land, 45 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 140,040 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Musaffah today: AQI 224, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM10 · Observed Nov 11, 17:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Mussafah/Station, UAE, 2.4 km away
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
36.7
PM10
371.7
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, AED - Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi ( هيئة البيئة - أبو ظبي)
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Musaffah's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 70 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5.
Where Musaffah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Musaffah: Critically low
0.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.51 km² of land.
Trees in this area
625
Target trees
140,665
More trees needed
140,040
CO₂ if planted / yr
3,081 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Musaffah lost?
There was almost no forest around Musaffah 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 October 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 Musaffah right now?
The latest reading for Musaffah shows an AQI of 224 (Very unhealthy), measured Nov 11, 17:00 local time by the Mussafah/Station, UAE ground monitoring station, 2.4 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM10. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Musaffah today?
At AQI 224 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Musaffah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Musaffah's daily AQI at 88 on average, from 70 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 155 on Nov 5. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Musaffah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Musaffah 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 Musaffah?
Musaffah has an estimated 625 trees across the 12.51 km² of land measured — 0.2% tree cover, 45 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Musaffah need?
Musaffah needs roughly 140,040 more trees to close a 45-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 3,081 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Musaffah's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Musaffah - M17 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Musaffah - M17 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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