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

Air quality and tree cover for 3 cities in Nara, Japan, measured from satellite imagery and live air-quality data.

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.

Average right now

AQI 46

Good

US EPA index, across 3 cities
cities tracked
3
average tree cover
23.6%
Japan: 16.4%

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

Nara · average AQI 46

Air quality today across Nara, city by city

Current air quality and tree cover for cities in Nara, Japan
Nara-shi31Good12.4%54.6K#97 of 207
Kashihara-shi53Moderate11.1%59.3K#109 of 207
Ikoma55Moderate47.3%—#8 of 207

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 Japan.

Deforestation · 2001–2025

How much forest has Nara lost?

Since 2001, Nara has lost about 4,860 hectares of forest (about 6,800 football pitches): 1.6% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 1,260 hectares (26%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.

Forest lost since 2001
4,860 haabout 6,800 football pitches
Share of its forest
1.6%of what there was in 2000
Cleared for good
1,260 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest lost each year in Nara, 2001–2025

Hectares of forest lost each year

Forest lost each year in Nara, 2001–2025. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each year.443

Show the figures as a table
Forest lost each year in Nara, 2001–2025
YearCleared for goodCan grow backTotal
200187 ha133 ha220 ha
200234 ha138 ha172 ha
200313 ha130 ha143 ha
200477 ha360 ha437 ha
200546 ha202 ha248 ha
200634 ha205 ha239 ha
200740 ha148 ha187 ha
200866 ha270 ha336 ha
200942 ha202 ha244 ha
201067 ha208 ha275 ha
201181 ha143 ha223 ha
2012174 ha269 ha443 ha
201312 ha39 ha51 ha
201420 ha48 ha68 ha
201555 ha75 ha129 ha
201691 ha201 ha292 ha
201742 ha125 ha167 ha
201828 ha96 ha124 ha
201922 ha114 ha136 ha
202040 ha77 ha116 ha
202197 ha65 ha162 ha
202234 ha83 ha117 ha
202323 ha93 ha116 ha
202418 ha98 ha116 ha
202519 ha86 ha104 ha

Forest loss is slowing down: about 123 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 167 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2012, when about 443 hectares of forest were lost.

What is causing deforestation in Nara?

  • Loggingcan grow back64% · 3,090 ha
  • Towns and roadscleared for good15% · 719 ha
  • Mining and energycleared for good9.8% · 478 ha

Also: storms, floods and other natural causes, farms, pasture and plantations, 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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