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Sidi Bel Abbes Air quality today
Air quality in Sidi Bel Abbes currently reads AQI 56 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 56
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 13.3
- tree cover
- 4.4%
- trees in this area
- 13.8K
- more trees needed
- 80.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Sidi Bel Abbes, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 15, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sidi Bel Abbes · AQI 56 (Moderate)
Sidi Bel Abbes's tree count comes to 13,823 trees across 12.57 km², 26 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 80,425 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sidi Bel Abbes today: AQI 56, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 250 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 250 km, e.g. Nador and Almería
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
13.3
PM10
12.7
NO₂
9.7
O₃
50.0
SO₂
4.3
CO
146.0
- 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 Sidi Bel Abbes's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 30 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 53 on Nov 4.
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sidi Bel Abbes: Critically low
4.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
13,823
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
80,425
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,769 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sidi Bel Abbes lost?
There was almost no forest around Sidi Bel Abbes 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.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 107 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 158 ha
- Overall change
- +51 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Sidi Bel Abbes grew from about 107 hectares to 158 hectares, a net gain of about 51 hectares (+48%). New forest grew on about 51 hectares, while 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 Sidi Bel Abbes right now?
The latest reading for Sidi Bel Abbes shows an AQI of 56 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 250 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 Sidi Bel Abbes today?
At AQI 56 (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 Sidi Bel Abbes been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sidi Bel Abbes's daily AQI at 40 on average, from 30 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 53 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 Sidi Bel Abbes lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sidi Bel Abbes 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 Sidi Bel Abbes grew from about 107 hectares to 158 hectares, a net gain of about 51 hectares (+48%). New forest grew on about 51 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Sidi Bel Abbes?
Sidi Bel Abbes has an estimated 13,823 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 4.4% tree cover, 26 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sidi Bel Abbes need?
Sidi Bel Abbes needs roughly 80,425 more trees to close a 26-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,769 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sidi Bel Abbes'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 Sidi Bel Abbes; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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