City report · Tehran, Iran
Qarchak Air quality today
Air quality in Qarchak currently reads AQI 151 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 151
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 44.6
- tree cover
- 3.5%
- trees in this area
- 11.0K
- more trees needed
- 115K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Qarchak, Tehran Province, Iran (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Qarchak · AQI 151 (Unhealthy)
Qarchak's tree count comes to 10,996 trees across 12.57 km², 37 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 114,668 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Qarchak today: AQI 151, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 08:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
44.6
PM10
48.5
NO₂
49.9
O₃
32.0
SO₂
39.0
CO
274.0
- 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 Qarchak's daily AQI at 95 on average, from 64 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 172 on Nov 10.
Where Qarchak stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Qarchak: Critically low
3.5% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
10,996
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
114,668
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,523 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Qarchak lost?
There was almost no forest around Qarchak 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 Qarchak right now?
The latest reading for Qarchak shows an AQI of 151 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 08:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Qarchak today?
At AQI 151 (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 Qarchak been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Qarchak's daily AQI at 95 on average, from 64 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 172 on Nov 10. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Qarchak lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Qarchak 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 Qarchak?
Qarchak has an estimated 10,996 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.5% tree cover, 37 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Qarchak need?
Qarchak needs roughly 114,668 more trees to close a 37-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 2,523 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Qarchak'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 Qarchak; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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