City report · Salah ad Din, Iraq
Sāmarrā’ Air quality today
Air quality in Sāmarrā’ currently reads AQI 54 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 54
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 9.3
- tree cover
- 1.4%
- trees in this area
- 4.4K
- more trees needed
- 89.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Mualmeen, Samarra, Saladin Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sāmarrā’ · AQI 54 (Moderate)
Sāmarrā’'s tree count comes to 4,398 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 89,850 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sāmarrā’ today: AQI 54, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 125 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 125 km, e.g. Baghdad and Baghdad
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
9.3
PM10
3.7
NO₂
4.9
O₃
67.0
SO₂
31.5
CO
147.0
- 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 Sāmarrā’'s daily AQI at 59 on average, from 25 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 126 on Nov 6.
Where Sāmarrā’ stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sāmarrā’: Critically low
1.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
4,398
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
89,850
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,977 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sāmarrā’ lost?
Almost no forest has been lost around Sāmarrā’ since 2001: less than 1 hectare of the 151 hectares there in 2000.
2017: satellite photo from August 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Al Fallūjah94.6 km
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- Air quality
- 58
- Al Miqdādīyah99.8 km
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- 20%
- Air quality
- 91
- Ramadi101.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
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- Abū Ghurayb102.8 km
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- Air quality
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Questions about Sāmarrā’
What is the air quality (AQI) in Sāmarrā’ right now?
The latest reading for Sāmarrā’ shows an AQI of 54 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 125 km, 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 Sāmarrā’ today?
At AQI 54 (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 Sāmarrā’ been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sāmarrā’'s daily AQI at 59 on average, from 25 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 126 on Nov 6. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Sāmarrā’ lost since 2001?
Almost no forest has been lost around Sāmarrā’ since 2001: less than 1 hectare of the 151 hectares there in 2000.
What is the tree count in Sāmarrā’?
Sāmarrā’ has an estimated 4,398 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.4% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sāmarrā’ need?
Sāmarrā’ needs roughly 89,850 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,977 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sāmarrā’'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 Al Mualmeen; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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