City report · Piedmont, Italy
Novara Air quality today
Air quality in Novara currently reads AQI 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Air quality right now
AQI 111
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 39.7
- tree cover
- 19.1%
- trees in this area
- 60.0K
- more trees needed
- 50.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around 28100 Novara, Province of Novara, Italy (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Novara · AQI 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Novara's tree count comes to 60,004 trees across 12.57 km², 16 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 49,951 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Novara today: AQI 111, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 17:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Cuggiono (via Albrizio), 15.9 km away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
39.7
PM10
—
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, aidrini, Jiraya
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Novara's daily AQI at 91 on average, from 81 on Nov 3 to an hourly peak of 148 on Nov 7.
Where Novara stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Novara: Critically low
19.1% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
60,004
Target trees
109,955
More trees needed
49,951
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,099 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Novara lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Novara has lost about 61 hectares of forest (about 86 football pitches): 5.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (79%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 61 haabout 86 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 5.2%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 49 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2009, when about 17 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2005 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2006 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2009 | 17 ha | under 1 ha | 17 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2011 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2012 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 3 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Novara?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good60% · 37 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good20% · 12 ha
- Loggingcan grow back10% · 6 ha
Also: unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,720 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,730 ha
- Overall change
- +12 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Novara stayed about the same size, at about 1,730 hectares: new forest grew on about 140 hectares, and about 128 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Novara right now?
The latest reading for Novara shows an AQI of 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 17:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Cuggiono (via Albrizio), 15.9 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Novara today?
At AQI 111 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Novara been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Novara's daily AQI at 91 on average, from 81 on Nov 3 to an hourly peak of 148 on Nov 7. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Novara lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Novara has lost about 61 hectares of forest (about 86 football pitches): 5.2% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (79%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Novara stayed about the same size, at about 1,730 hectares: new forest grew on about 140 hectares, and about 128 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Novara?
Novara has an estimated 60,004 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 19.1% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Novara need?
Novara needs roughly 49,951 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,099 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Novara's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near 28100 Novara, 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 28100 Novara; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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