City report · Falcón, Venezuela
Punto Fijo Air quality today
Air quality in Punto Fijo currently reads AQI 17 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 17
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 2.6
- tree cover
- 7.9%
- trees in this area
- 23.8K
- more trees needed
- 66.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Punto Fijo, Falcón, Venezuela (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Punto Fijo · AQI 17 (Good)
Punto Fijo's tree count comes to 23,826 trees across 12.07 km² of land, 22 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 66,652 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Punto Fijo today: AQI 17, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
2.6
PM10
4.1
NO₂
0.7
O₃
38.0
SO₂
0.4
CO
114.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Punto Fijo's daily AQI at 36 on average, from 19 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 58 on Nov 10.
Where Punto Fijo stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Punto Fijo: Critically low
7.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.07 km² of land.
Trees in this area
23,826
Target trees
90,478
More trees needed
66,652
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,466 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Punto Fijo lost?
There was almost no forest around Punto Fijo 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.
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 Punto Fijo right now?
The latest reading for Punto Fijo shows an AQI of 17 (Good), observed Nov 11, 02:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Punto Fijo today?
At AQI 17 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Punto Fijo been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Punto Fijo's daily AQI at 36 on average, from 19 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 58 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 Punto Fijo lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Punto Fijo 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 Punto Fijo?
Punto Fijo has an estimated 23,826 trees across the 12.07 km² of land measured — 7.9% tree cover, 22 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Punto Fijo need?
Punto Fijo needs roughly 66,652 more trees to close a 22-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,466 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Punto Fijo'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 Punto Fijo; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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