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Ouagadougou Air quality today
Air quality in Ouagadougou currently reads AQI 69 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 69
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 15.2
- tree cover
- 9.8%
- trees in this area
- 30.8K
- more trees needed
- 63.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 15, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ouagadougou · AQI 69 (Moderate)
Ouagadougou's tree count comes to 30,788 trees across 12.57 km², 20 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 63,460 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ouagadougou today: AQI 69, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 13:00 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
15.2
PM10
34.3
NO₂
0.6
O₃
119.0
SO₂
1.4
CO
225.0
- 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 Ouagadougou's daily AQI at 85 on average, from 65 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 132 on Nov 8.
Where Ouagadougou stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ouagadougou: Critically low
9.8% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
30,788
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
63,460
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,396 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ouagadougou lost?
There was almost no forest around Ouagadougou 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 January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 310 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 427 ha
- Overall change
- +117 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Ouagadougou grew from about 310 hectares to 427 hectares, a net gain of about 117 hectares (+38%). New forest grew on about 117 hectares, while under 1 hectare was 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 Ouagadougou right now?
The latest reading for Ouagadougou shows an AQI of 69 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 13:00 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 Ouagadougou today?
At AQI 69 (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 Ouagadougou been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ouagadougou's daily AQI at 85 on average, from 65 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 132 on Nov 8. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ouagadougou lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ouagadougou 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Ouagadougou grew from about 310 hectares to 427 hectares, a net gain of about 117 hectares (+38%). New forest grew on about 117 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Ouagadougou?
Ouagadougou has an estimated 30,788 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 9.8% tree cover, 20 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ouagadougou need?
Ouagadougou needs roughly 63,460 more trees to close a 20-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,396 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ouagadougou'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 Ouagadougou; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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