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Samālūţ Air quality today
Air quality in Samālūţ currently reads AQI 1228 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
AQI 1228
Air quality right now
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 698.4
- tree cover
- 12.7%
- trees in this area
- 39.9K
- more trees needed
- 101K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Samalut, Madinet Samalout, West Samalout, Minya Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Samālūţ · AQI 1228 (Hazardous)
Samālūţ's tree count comes to 39,898 trees across 12.57 km², 32 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 101,473 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Samālūţ today: AQI 1228, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 245 km, e.g. New Cairo 1 and Obour
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
698.4
PM10
1482.7
NO₂
5.4
O₃
106.0
SO₂
6.3
CO
160.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Samālūţ's daily AQI at 175 on average, from 129 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 268 on Nov 10.
Where Samālūţ stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Samālūţ: Critically low
12.7% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
39,898
Target trees
141,371
More trees needed
101,473
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,232 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Samālūţ lost?
There was almost no forest around Samālūţ 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 September 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 Samālūţ right now?
The latest reading for Samālūţ shows an AQI of 1228 (Hazardous), observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 245 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Samālūţ today?
At AQI 1228 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Samālūţ been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Samālūţ's daily AQI at 175 on average, from 129 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 268 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Samālūţ lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Samālūţ 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 Samālūţ?
Samālūţ has an estimated 39,898 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 12.7% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Samālūţ need?
Samālūţ needs roughly 101,473 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,232 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Samālūţ'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 Samalut; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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