City report · Sohag, Egypt
Sohag Air quality today
Air quality in Sohag currently reads AQI 401 (Hazardous): Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
AQI 401
Air quality right now
Hazardous
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 259.8
- tree cover
- 8.9%
- trees in this area
- 24.7K
- more trees needed
- 100K
Measured across a 2 km radius around East Sohag, Sohag 2, Sohag Governorate, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sohag · AQI 401 (Hazardous)
Sohag's tree count comes to 24,745 trees across 11.12 km² of land, 36 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 100,369 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sohag today: AQI 401, Hazardous
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
PM2.5
259.8
PM10
1303.9
NO₂
7.3
O₃
68.0
SO₂
5.2
CO
158.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed and seal gaps
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you must go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sohag's daily AQI at 245 on average, from 188 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 433 on Nov 10.
Where Sohag stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sohag: Critically low
8.9% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.12 km² of land.
Trees in this area
24,745
Target trees
125,114
More trees needed
100,369
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,208 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sohag lost?
There was almost no forest around Sohag 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
- 82 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 140 ha
- Overall change
- +58 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Sohag grew from about 82 hectares to 140 hectares, a net gain of about 58 hectares. New forest grew on about 59 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 Sohag right now?
The latest reading for Sohag shows an AQI of 401 (Hazardous), observed Nov 11, 00:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Emergency conditions — avoid outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Sohag today?
At AQI 401 (Hazardous): everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed and seal gaps. Masks: wear an N95 if you must go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Sohag been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sohag's daily AQI at 245 on average, from 188 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 433 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Sohag lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sohag 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 Sohag grew from about 82 hectares to 140 hectares, a net gain of about 58 hectares. New forest grew on about 59 hectares, while under 1 hectare was lost.
What is the tree count in Sohag?
Sohag has an estimated 24,745 trees across the 11.12 km² of land measured — 8.9% tree cover, 36 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sohag need?
Sohag needs roughly 100,369 more trees to close a 36-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,208 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sohag'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 East Sohag; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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