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Stavanger Air quality today
Air quality in Stavanger currently reads AQI 27 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 27
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.9
- tree cover
- 29.0%
- trees in this area
- 65.6K
- more trees needed
- 2.3K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Stavanger Sentrum, Stavanger, Norway (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Stavanger · AQI 27 (Good)
Stavanger's tree count comes to 65,596 trees across 9.05 km² of land, 1 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 2,262 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Stavanger today: AQI 27, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 16:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Vagen, Stavanger, Norway, 500 m away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
4.9
PM10
6.5
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, NILU - Norsk institutt for Luftforskning (Norwegian Institute for Air Research)
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Stavanger's daily AQI at 36 on average, from 27 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 9.
Where Stavanger stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Stavanger: Below target
29.0% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 9.05 km² of land.
Trees in this area
65,596
Target trees
67,858
More trees needed
2,262
CO₂ if planted / yr
49.8 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Stavanger lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Stavanger has lost about 200 hectares of forest (about 280 football pitches): 4% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (52%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads.
2017: satellite photo from July 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km south of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 200 haabout 280 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 4%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 104 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2018, when about 26 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2002 | 2 ha | under 1 ha | 2 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | 2 ha | 2 ha |
| 2004 | 3 ha | 4 ha | 7 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | 4 ha | 4 ha | 8 ha |
| 2007 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | 4 ha | 7 ha | 11 ha |
| 2010 | 6 ha | 11 ha | 16 ha |
| 2011 | 2 ha | 3 ha | 5 ha |
| 2012 | 2 ha | 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2013 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2014 | 3 ha | 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2015 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2016 | 8 ha | 4 ha | 12 ha |
| 2017 | 5 ha | 2 ha | 7 ha |
| 2018 | 13 ha | 13 ha | 26 ha |
| 2019 | 9 ha | 10 ha | 19 ha |
| 2020 | 12 ha | 8 ha | 20 ha |
| 2021 | 9 ha | 6 ha | 15 ha |
| 2022 | 2 ha | 2 ha | 4 ha |
| 2023 | 4 ha | 3 ha | 8 ha |
| 2024 | 4 ha | 3 ha | 7 ha |
| 2025 | 4 ha | 6 ha | 10 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Stavanger?
- Towns and roadscleared for good42% · 83 ha
- Loggingcan grow back40% · 80 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good10% · 21 ha
Also: wildfires, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 4,610 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 4,790 ha
- Overall change
- +186 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Stavanger grew from about 4,610 hectares to 4,790 hectares, a net gain of about 186 hectares (+4%). New forest grew on about 499 hectares, while 313 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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- Drammen267.6 km
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Gothenburg389.8 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Stavanger right now?
The latest reading for Stavanger shows an AQI of 27 (Good), measured Nov 11, 16:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Vagen, Stavanger, Norway, 500 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Stavanger today?
At AQI 27 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Stavanger been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Stavanger's daily AQI at 36 on average, from 27 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 9. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Stavanger lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Stavanger has lost about 200 hectares of forest (about 280 football pitches): 4% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (52%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for towns and roads. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Stavanger grew from about 4,610 hectares to 4,790 hectares, a net gain of about 186 hectares (+4%). New forest grew on about 499 hectares, while 313 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Stavanger?
Stavanger has an estimated 65,596 trees across the 9.05 km² of land measured — 29.0% tree cover, 1 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Stavanger need?
Stavanger needs roughly 2,262 more trees to close a 1-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 49.8 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Stavanger's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Stavanger Sentrum, 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 Stavanger Sentrum; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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