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Air quality now: Morogoro

Tanzania · Morogoro · 2 cities

Air quality in Morogoro today The AQI right now, city by city

Right now, Morogoro has the cleanest air of the 2 cities we track in Morogoro (AQI 39, Good), and Ifakara the worst (AQI 57, Moderate). Ifakara has the most tree cover, at 37.2% — #3 of 33 cities measured in Tanzania.

Every city is measured the same way, over the same 2 km around its center: the air quality right now, from ground stations where there are any, and its tree cover.

cities tracked
2
average tree cover
30.4%
Tanzania: 20.7%
worst air now: Ifakara
57
cleanest air now: Morogoro
39

Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf, refreshed hourly.

Morogoro

Air quality today across Morogoro, city by city

Current air quality and tree cover for cities in Morogoro, Tanzania
Morogoro39Good23.7%19.8K#12 of 33
Ifakara57Moderate37.2%—#3 of 33

Air quality is the US AQI from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where available, otherwise the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, refreshed hourly. Tree cover is measured within 2 km of each city center from Sentinel-2 imagery; the rank compares every city measured in Tanzania.

Deforestation · 2001–2025

How much forest has Morogoro lost?

Since 2001, Morogoro has lost about 403,000 hectares of forest (about 4,000 km²): 11% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (80%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.

Forest lost since 2001
403,000 haabout 4,000 km²
Share of its forest
11%of what there was in 2000
Cleared for good
322,000 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest lost each year in Morogoro, 2001–2025

Hectares of forest lost each year

Forest lost each year in Morogoro, 2001–2025. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each year.29.8K

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Forest lost each year in Morogoro, 2001–2025
YearCleared for goodCan grow backTotal
20019,370 ha3,730 ha13,100 ha
20029,900 ha4,190 ha14,100 ha
200310,200 ha3,270 ha13,500 ha
20044,150 ha1,430 ha5,580 ha
20058,140 ha2,810 ha11,000 ha
20064,050 ha1,320 ha5,370 ha
20077,600 ha1,520 ha9,120 ha
200816,200 ha1,670 ha17,900 ha
200914,000 ha1,980 ha16,000 ha
201019,400 ha3,130 ha22,500 ha
20119,760 ha2,250 ha12,000 ha
201214,100 ha3,180 ha17,300 ha
201315,500 ha6,310 ha21,800 ha
201420,900 ha8,960 ha29,800 ha
20157,680 ha3,010 ha10,700 ha
201615,500 ha2,620 ha18,100 ha
201717,100 ha3,580 ha20,700 ha
20189,830 ha2,610 ha12,400 ha
201912,900 ha3,660 ha16,600 ha
202015,900 ha3,090 ha18,900 ha
202116,200 ha2,770 ha19,000 ha
202213,600 ha2,480 ha16,100 ha
202316,800 ha3,710 ha20,500 ha
202417,700 ha4,160 ha21,900 ha
202515,700 ha3,330 ha19,100 ha

Forest loss has stayed about the same: about 19,300 hectares a year in 2021–2025, against 17,300 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2014, when about 29,800 hectares of forest were lost.

What is causing deforestation in Morogoro?

  • Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good78% · 315,000 ha
  • Shifting farmingcan grow back17% · 69,600 ha
  • Mining and energycleared for good1.2% · 5,000 ha

Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, logging, towns and roads, wildfires, unknown causes.

Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.

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. How it's measured

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