City report · United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Air quality today
Air quality in Sharjah currently reads AQI 53 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 53
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.2
- tree cover
- 2.2%
- trees in this area
- 6.9K
- more trees needed
- 87.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Industrial Area 4 - Industrial Area - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sharjah · AQI 53 (Moderate)
Sharjah's tree count comes to 6,912 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 87,336 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sharjah today: AQI 53, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Al Muntazi 2, Ajman, 14.6 km away · median of 3 stations
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
10.2
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, humaid, batmam, Charlie
- 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 Sharjah's daily AQI at 125 on average, from 107 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 163 on Nov 3.
Where Sharjah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sharjah: Critically low
2.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
6,912
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
87,336
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,921 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sharjah lost?
There was almost no forest around Sharjah 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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Questions about Sharjah
What is the air quality (AQI) in Sharjah right now?
The latest reading for Sharjah shows an AQI of 53 (Moderate), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by 3 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Al Muntazi 2, Ajman, 14.6 km away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Sharjah today?
At AQI 53 (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 Sharjah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sharjah's daily AQI at 125 on average, from 107 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 163 on Nov 3. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Sharjah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sharjah 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 Sharjah?
Sharjah has an estimated 6,912 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.2% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sharjah need?
Sharjah needs roughly 87,336 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,921 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sharjah's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Industrial Area 4 - Industrial Area - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Industrial Area 4 - Industrial Area - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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