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Quibdó Air quality today
Air quality in Quibdó currently reads AQI 24 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 24
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.8
- tree cover
- 50.5%
- trees in this area
- 152K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Quibdo, Quibdó, Choco, Colombia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 22, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Quibdó · AQI 24 (Good)
Quibdó's tree count comes to 151,828 trees across 12.03 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Quibdó today: AQI 24, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 145 km, e.g. Envigado and Medellín
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
4.8
PM10
4.7
NO₂
0.2
O₃
55.0
SO₂
0.6
CO
120.0
- 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 Quibdó's daily AQI at 22 on average, from 13 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 48 on Nov 9.
Where Quibdó stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Quibdó: Healthy tree cover
50.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.03 km² of land.
Trees in this area
151,828
Target trees
151,828
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Quibdó lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Quibdó has lost about 444 hectares of forest (about 620 football pitches): 1.5% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (77%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 5 km south of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 444 haabout 620 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 1.5%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 340 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2009, when about 71 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 15 ha | 7 ha | 22 ha |
| 2002 | 13 ha | 7 ha | 20 ha |
| 2003 | 1 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2004 | 12 ha | 3 ha | 15 ha |
| 2005 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 5 ha |
| 2006 | 11 ha | 5 ha | 15 ha |
| 2007 | 26 ha | 8 ha | 34 ha |
| 2008 | 4 ha | 2 ha | 6 ha |
| 2009 | 54 ha | 17 ha | 71 ha |
| 2010 | 39 ha | 21 ha | 60 ha |
| 2011 | 6 ha | 6 ha | 12 ha |
| 2012 | 16 ha | 9 ha | 25 ha |
| 2013 | 10 ha | 4 ha | 15 ha |
| 2014 | 10 ha | 3 ha | 13 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | 20 ha | 3 ha | 23 ha |
| 2017 | 18 ha | 3 ha | 21 ha |
| 2018 | 6 ha | under 1 ha | 6 ha |
| 2019 | 13 ha | under 1 ha | 14 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | 13 ha | 1 ha | 14 ha |
| 2022 | 8 ha | 1 ha | 9 ha |
| 2023 | 31 ha | under 1 ha | 32 ha |
| 2024 | 11 ha | 1 ha | 12 ha |
| 2025 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Quibdó?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good34% · 151 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good30% · 135 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good12% · 54 ha
Also: shifting farming, storms, floods and other natural causes, logging, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 27,500 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 26,700 ha
- Overall change
- −763 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Quibdó shrank from about 27,500 hectares to 26,700 hectares, a net loss of about 763 hectares (−2.8%). New forest grew on about 279 hectares, but 1,040 hectares were 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 Quibdó right now?
The latest reading for Quibdó shows an AQI of 24 (Good), observed Nov 10, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Quibdó today?
At AQI 24 (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 Quibdó been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Quibdó's daily AQI at 22 on average, from 13 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 48 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Quibdó lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Quibdó has lost about 444 hectares of forest (about 620 football pitches): 1.5% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (77%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Quibdó shrank from about 27,500 hectares to 26,700 hectares, a net loss of about 763 hectares (−2.8%). New forest grew on about 279 hectares, but 1,040 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Quibdó?
Quibdó has an estimated 151,828 trees across the 12.03 km² of land measured — 50.5% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Quibdó need?
Quibdó has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Quibdó'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 Quibdo; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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