City report · Sennar, Sudan
Sennar Air quality today
Air quality in Sennar currently reads AQI 88 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 88
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 25.6
- tree cover
- 5.4%
- trees in this area
- 15.9K
- more trees needed
- 72.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Sennar, Sudan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sennar · AQI 88 (Moderate)
Sennar's tree count comes to 15,879 trees across 11.77 km² of land, 25 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 72,337 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sennar today: AQI 88, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 09:00 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
25.6
PM10
57.4
NO₂
0.7
O₃
76.0
SO₂
1.4
CO
138.0
- 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 Sennar's daily AQI at 73 on average, from 57 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 91 on Nov 8.
Where Sennar stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sennar: Critically low
5.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.77 km² of land.
Trees in this area
15,879
Target trees
88,216
More trees needed
72,337
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,591 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sennar lost?
There was almost no forest around Sennar 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.
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 Sennar right now?
The latest reading for Sennar shows an AQI of 88 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 09:00 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 Sennar today?
At AQI 88 (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 Sennar been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sennar's daily AQI at 73 on average, from 57 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 91 on Nov 8. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Sennar lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sennar 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 Sennar?
Sennar has an estimated 15,879 trees across the 11.77 km² of land measured — 5.4% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sennar need?
Sennar needs roughly 72,337 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,591 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sennar'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 Sennar; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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