City report · Dhi Qar, Iraq
Qal‘at Sukkar Air quality today
Air quality in Qal‘at Sukkar currently reads AQI 168 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
AQI 168
Air quality right now
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 81.5
- tree cover
- 5.3%
- trees in this area
- 16.4K
- more trees needed
- 107K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Qalat Sukar, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Qal‘at Sukkar · AQI 168 (Unhealthy)
Qal‘at Sukkar's tree count comes to 16,384 trees across 12.37 km² of land, 35 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 107,269 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Qal‘at Sukkar today: AQI 168, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 245 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
81.5
PM10
47.7
NO₂
9.2
O₃
74.0
SO₂
12.8
CO
158.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Qal‘at Sukkar's daily AQI at 99 on average, from 66 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 158 on Nov 7.
Where Qal‘at Sukkar stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Qal‘at Sukkar: Critically low
5.3% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.37 km² of land.
Trees in this area
16,384
Target trees
123,653
More trees needed
107,269
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,360 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Qal‘at Sukkar lost?
There was almost no forest around Qal‘at Sukkar 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 September 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 Qal‘at Sukkar right now?
The latest reading for Qal‘at Sukkar shows an AQI of 168 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 20:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Qal‘at Sukkar today?
At AQI 168 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Qal‘at Sukkar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Qal‘at Sukkar's daily AQI at 99 on average, from 66 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 158 on Nov 7. On 3 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Qal‘at Sukkar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Qal‘at Sukkar 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 Qal‘at Sukkar?
Qal‘at Sukkar has an estimated 16,384 trees across the 12.37 km² of land measured — 5.3% tree cover, 35 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Qal‘at Sukkar need?
Qal‘at Sukkar needs roughly 107,269 more trees to close a 35-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,360 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Qal‘at Sukkar'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 Qalat Sukar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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