City report · Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Rānyah Air quality today
Air quality in Rānyah currently reads AQI 59 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 59
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 11.2
- tree cover
- 2.1%
- trees in this area
- 6.6K
- more trees needed
- 87.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Sara, Ranya, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Rānyah · AQI 59 (Moderate)
Rānyah's tree count comes to 6,597 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 87,650 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Rānyah today: AQI 59, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 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. Sulaymaniyah and Silopi
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
11.2
PM10
5.5
NO₂
3.9
O₃
71.0
SO₂
3.0
CO
210.0
- 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 Rānyah's daily AQI at 38 on average, from 17 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 64 on Nov 5.
Where Rānyah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Rānyah: Critically low
2.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
6,597
Target trees
94,247
More trees needed
87,650
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,928 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Rānyah lost?
There was almost no forest around Rānyah 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 Rānyah right now?
The latest reading for Rānyah shows an AQI of 59 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Rānyah today?
At AQI 59 (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 Rānyah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Rānyah's daily AQI at 38 on average, from 17 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 64 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 Rānyah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Rānyah 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 Rānyah?
Rānyah has an estimated 6,597 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.1% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Rānyah need?
Rānyah needs roughly 87,650 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,928 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Rānyah'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 Sara; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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