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Rafaḩ Air quality today
Air quality in Rafaḩ currently reads AQI 91 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 91
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 36.6
- tree cover
- 0.2%
- trees in this area
- 628
- more trees needed
- 93.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Rafah, Palestine, State of (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Rafaḩ · AQI 91 (Moderate)
Rafaḩ's tree count comes to 628 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 93,619 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Rafaḩ today: AQI 91, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 5 station cities within 85 km, e.g. Gaza and Ashkelon
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
36.6
PM10
23.1
NO₂
23.9
O₃
34.0
SO₂
9.0
CO
194.0
- 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 Rafaḩ's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 38 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 72 on Nov 5.
Where Rafaḩ stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Rafaḩ: Critically low
0.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
628
Target trees
94,247
More trees needed
93,619
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,060 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Rafaḩ lost?
There was almost no forest around Rafaḩ 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 Rafaḩ right now?
The latest reading for Rafaḩ shows an AQI of 91 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 01:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 5 ground-station cities within 85 km, 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 Rafaḩ today?
At AQI 91 (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 Rafaḩ been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Rafaḩ's daily AQI at 49 on average, from 38 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 72 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 Rafaḩ lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Rafaḩ 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 Rafaḩ?
Rafaḩ has an estimated 628 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.2% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Rafaḩ need?
Rafaḩ needs roughly 93,619 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,060 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Rafaḩ'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 Rafah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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