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Ras Al Khaimah Air quality today
Air quality in Ras Al Khaimah currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 53
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.3
- tree cover
- 21.6%
- trees in this area
- 39.5K
- more trees needed
- 15.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Sidrow - Ras Al Khaimah - United Arab Emirates (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ras Al Khaimah · AQI 53 (Moderate)
Ras Al Khaimah's tree count comes to 39,494 trees across 7.32 km² of land, 8 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 15,359 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ras Al Khaimah today: AQI 53, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Al Hamra Village, Ras Al Khaimah, 18.6 km away
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
10.3
PM10
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NO₂
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O₃
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SO₂
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CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, VR
- 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 Ras Al Khaimah's daily AQI at 107 on average, from 89 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 139 on Nov 3.
Where Ras Al Khaimah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ras Al Khaimah: Below target
21.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 7.32 km² of land.
Trees in this area
39,494
Target trees
54,853
More trees needed
15,359
CO₂ if planted / yr
337.9 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ras Al Khaimah lost?
There was almost no forest around Ras Al Khaimah 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 October 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Ras Al Khaimah
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Sharjah73.5 km
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- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 53
- Warīsān87.6 km
United Arab Emirates
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 26
- Jebel Ali121.2 km
United Arab Emirates
- Tree cover
- 0%
- Air quality
- 47
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Ras Al Khaimah right now?
The latest reading for Ras Al Khaimah shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by the Al Hamra Village, Ras Al Khaimah ground monitoring station, 18.6 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ras Al Khaimah today?
At AQI 53 (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 Ras Al Khaimah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ras Al Khaimah's daily AQI at 107 on average, from 89 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 139 on Nov 3. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ras Al Khaimah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ras Al Khaimah 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 Ras Al Khaimah?
Ras Al Khaimah has an estimated 39,494 trees across the 7.32 km² of land measured — 21.6% tree cover, 8 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ras Al Khaimah need?
Ras Al Khaimah needs roughly 15,359 more trees to close a 8-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 337.9 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ras Al Khaimah's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Sidrow - Ras Al Khaimah - United Arab Emirates, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Sidrow - Ras Al Khaimah - United Arab Emirates; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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