City report · Mpumalanga, South Africa
Somaroboro Air quality today
Air quality in Somaroboro currently reads AQI 62 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 62
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.3
- tree cover
- 3.5%
- trees in this area
- 11.0K
- more trees needed
- 83.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Phumula-B, Sesakhile, South Africa (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 17, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Somaroboro · AQI 62 (Moderate)
Somaroboro's tree count comes to 10,996 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 83,252 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Somaroboro today: AQI 62, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 08:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 85 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 85 km, e.g. eMalahleni and Soshanguve
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
10.3
PM10
18.0
NO₂
4.6
O₃
99.0
SO₂
16.1
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 Somaroboro's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 25 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 109 on Nov 11.
Where Somaroboro stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Somaroboro: Critically low
3.5% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
10,996
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
83,252
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,832 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Somaroboro lost?
There was almost no forest around Somaroboro 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 August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 193 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 190 ha
- Overall change
- −3 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Somaroboro stayed about the same size, at about 190 hectares: new forest grew on about 1 hectare, and about 5 hectares were 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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Measured cities near Somaroboro
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Hammanskraal55.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 76
- Emalahleni70.8 km
South Africa
- Tree cover
- 22%
- Air quality
- 88
- Soshanguve75.2 km
South Africa
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 205
- Pretoria78.6 km
South Africa
- Tree cover
- 15%
- Air quality
- 75
- Middelburg79.2 km
South Africa
- Tree cover
- 26%
- Air quality
- 55
- Centurion86.5 km
South Africa
- Tree cover
- 21%
- Air quality
- 58
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Somaroboro right now?
The latest reading for Somaroboro shows an AQI of 62 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 08:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 85 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 Somaroboro today?
At AQI 62 (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 Somaroboro been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Somaroboro's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 25 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 109 on Nov 11. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Somaroboro lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Somaroboro 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 Somaroboro stayed about the same size, at about 190 hectares: new forest grew on about 1 hectare, and about 5 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Somaroboro?
Somaroboro has an estimated 10,996 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.5% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Somaroboro need?
Somaroboro needs roughly 83,252 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,832 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Somaroboro'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 Phumula-B; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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