City report · Cairo, Egypt
New Cairo Air quality today
Air quality in New Cairo currently reads AQI 93 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 93
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 31.6
- tree cover
- 5.3%
- trees in this area
- 16.6K
- more trees needed
- 77.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around El-Banafseg Apartment Buildings, New Cairo 1, Cairo Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
New Cairo · AQI 93 (Moderate)
New Cairo's tree count comes to 16,650 trees across 12.57 km², 25 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 77,597 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in New Cairo today: AQI 93, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Walkthru Earth Main, 18 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
31.6
PM10
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NO₂
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O₃
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SO₂
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CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, Walkthru Earth
- 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 New Cairo's daily AQI at 57 on average, from 40 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 105 on Nov 5.
Where New Cairo stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in New Cairo: Critically low
5.3% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
16,650
Target trees
94,247
More trees needed
77,597
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,707 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has New Cairo lost?
There was almost no forest around New Cairo 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.
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 New Cairo right now?
The latest reading for New Cairo shows an AQI of 93 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by the Walkthru Earth Main ground monitoring station, 18 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in New Cairo today?
At AQI 93 (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 New Cairo been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put New Cairo's daily AQI at 57 on average, from 40 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 105 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 New Cairo lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around New Cairo 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 New Cairo?
New Cairo has an estimated 16,650 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 5.3% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does New Cairo need?
New Cairo needs roughly 77,597 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,707 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are New Cairo's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near El-Banafseg Apartment Buildings, 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 El-Banafseg Apartment Buildings; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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