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Ondjiva Air quality today
Air quality in Ondjiva currently reads AQI 62 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 62
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 16.1
- tree cover
- 3.2%
- trees in this area
- 10.0K
- more trees needed
- 83.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Ondjiva, Angola (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Nov 4, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ondjiva · AQI 62 (Moderate)
Ondjiva's tree count comes to 9,983 trees across 12.48 km² of land, 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 83,605 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ondjiva today: AQI 62, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
16.1
PM10
17.8
NO₂
2.3
O₃
70.0
SO₂
1.0
CO
168.0
- 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 Ondjiva's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 17 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 62 on Nov 10.
Where Ondjiva stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ondjiva: Critically low
3.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.48 km² of land.
Trees in this area
9,983
Target trees
93,588
More trees needed
83,605
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,839 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ondjiva lost?
There was almost no forest around Ondjiva 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 Ondjiva right now?
The latest reading for Ondjiva shows an AQI of 62 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 19:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Ondjiva today?
At AQI 62 (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 Ondjiva been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ondjiva's daily AQI at 34 on average, from 17 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 62 on Nov 10. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ondjiva lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ondjiva 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 Ondjiva?
Ondjiva has an estimated 9,983 trees across the 12.48 km² of land measured — 3.2% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ondjiva need?
Ondjiva needs roughly 83,605 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,839 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ondjiva'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 Ondjiva; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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