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Port Sudan Air quality today
Air quality in Port Sudan currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 53
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 9.5
- tree cover
- 0.6%
- trees in this area
- 1.7K
- more trees needed
- 83.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Port Sudan, Sudan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 15, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Port Sudan · AQI 53 (Moderate)
Port Sudan's tree count comes to 1,712 trees across 11.41 km² of land, 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 83,865 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Port Sudan today: AQI 53, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 09:00 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
9.5
PM10
18.8
NO₂
0.4
O₃
94.0
SO₂
1.1
CO
126.0
- 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 Port Sudan's daily AQI at 70 on average, from 59 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 112 on Nov 5.
Where Port Sudan stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Port Sudan: Critically low
0.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.41 km² of land.
Trees in this area
1,712
Target trees
85,577
More trees needed
83,865
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,845 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Port Sudan lost?
There was almost no forest around Port Sudan 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 March 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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- Air quality
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- 0%
- Air quality
- 53
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- 5%
- Air quality
- 58
- Atbara401.4 km
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- Air quality
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- Ad-Damir409.0 km
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- Air quality
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- Tree cover
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Port Sudan right now?
The latest reading for Port Sudan shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 09:00 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 Port Sudan today?
At AQI 53 (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 Port Sudan been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Port Sudan's daily AQI at 70 on average, from 59 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 112 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 Port Sudan lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Port Sudan 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 Port Sudan?
Port Sudan has an estimated 1,712 trees across the 11.41 km² of land measured — 0.6% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Port Sudan need?
Port Sudan needs roughly 83,865 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,845 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Port Sudan'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 Port Sudan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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