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Şalālah Air quality today
Air quality in Şalālah currently reads AQI 63 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 63
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 14.6
- tree cover
- 13.6%
- trees in this area
- 42.7K
- more trees needed
- 51.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Salalah Al Wusta, Salalah, Oman (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Şalālah · AQI 63 (Moderate)
Şalālah's tree count comes to 42,683 trees across 12.56 km² of land, 16 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 51,471 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Şalālah today: AQI 63, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
14.6
PM10
20.1
NO₂
6.6
O₃
65.0
SO₂
6.9
CO
139.0
- 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 Şalālah's daily AQI at 68 on average, from 55 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 96 on Nov 4.
Where Şalālah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Şalālah: Critically low
13.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.56 km² of land.
Trees in this area
42,683
Target trees
94,154
More trees needed
51,471
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,132 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Şalālah lost?
There was almost no forest around Şalālah 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 January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 168 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 172 ha
- Overall change
- +4 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Şalālah stayed about the same size, at about 172 hectares: new forest grew on about 4 hectares, and about under 1 hectare was lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Şalālah right now?
The latest reading for Şalālah shows an AQI of 63 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 21:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Şalālah today?
At AQI 63 (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 Şalālah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Şalālah's daily AQI at 68 on average, from 55 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 96 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Şalālah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Şalālah 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Şalālah stayed about the same size, at about 172 hectares: new forest grew on about 4 hectares, and about under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Şalālah?
Şalālah has an estimated 42,683 trees across the 12.56 km² of land measured — 13.6% tree cover, 16 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Şalālah need?
Şalālah needs roughly 51,471 more trees to close a 16-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,132 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Şalālah'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 Salalah Al Wusta; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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