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San José del Cabo Air quality today
Air quality in San José del Cabo currently reads AQI 12 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 12
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 2.1
- tree cover
- 18.2%
- trees in this area
- 53.1K
- more trees needed
- 34.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Jesús Castro Agúndez, San José del Cabo, B.C.S., Mexico (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
San José del Cabo · AQI 12 (Good)
San José del Cabo's tree count comes to 53,117 trees across 11.68 km² of land, 12 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 34,439 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in San José del Cabo today: AQI 12, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
2.1
PM10
3.4
NO₂
0.5
O₃
92.0
SO₂
0.6
CO
121.0
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put San José del Cabo's daily AQI at 21 on average, from 12 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 36 on Nov 4.
Where San José del Cabo stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in San José del Cabo: Below target
18.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.68 km² of land.
Trees in this area
53,117
Target trees
87,556
More trees needed
34,439
CO₂ if planted / yr
757.7 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has San José del Cabo lost?
There was almost no forest around San José del Cabo 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 February 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
- 173 ha
- Overall change
- +5 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around San José del Cabo stayed about the same size, at about 173 hectares: new forest grew on about 6 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 San José del Cabo right now?
The latest reading for San José del Cabo shows an AQI of 12 (Good), observed Nov 10, 13:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in San José del Cabo today?
At AQI 12 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in San José del Cabo been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put San José del Cabo's daily AQI at 21 on average, from 12 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 36 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 San José del Cabo lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around San José del Cabo 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 San José del Cabo stayed about the same size, at about 173 hectares: new forest grew on about 6 hectares, and about under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in San José del Cabo?
San José del Cabo has an estimated 53,117 trees across the 11.68 km² of land measured — 18.2% tree cover, 12 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does San José del Cabo need?
San José del Cabo needs roughly 34,439 more trees to close a 12-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 757.7 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are San José del Cabo'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 Jesús Castro Agúndez; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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