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Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah Air quality today
Air quality in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah currently reads AQI 58 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 58
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 12.9
- tree cover
- 4.4%
- trees in this area
- 13.8K
- more trees needed
- 80.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Alexandria, Babylon Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah · AQI 58 (Moderate)
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah's tree count comes to 13,768 trees across 12.52 km² of land, 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 80,103 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah today: AQI 58, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 23:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
12.9
PM10
5.2
NO₂
10.0
O₃
44.0
SO₂
3.9
CO
265.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 25 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 140 on Nov 7.
Where Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah: Critically low
4.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.52 km² of land.
Trees in this area
13,768
Target trees
93,871
More trees needed
80,103
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,762 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah lost?
There was almost no forest around Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah 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 July 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.
- Al-Musayab13.2 km
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- Tree cover
- 17%
- Air quality
- 122
- Al Maḩmūdīyah19.5 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 54
- Abu Gharaq40.1 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 11%
- Air quality
- 65
- Al Hindīyah40.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 13%
- Air quality
- 69
- Karbala42.6 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 11%
- Air quality
- 57
- Al Hillah47.6 km
Iraq
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 72
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Questions about Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah
What is the air quality (AQI) in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah right now?
The latest reading for Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah shows an AQI of 58 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 23:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah today?
At AQI 58 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 25 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 140 on Nov 7. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah 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 Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah?
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah has an estimated 13,768 trees across the 12.52 km² of land measured — 4.4% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah need?
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah needs roughly 80,103 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,762 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah'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 Alexandria; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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