City report · Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Sulaymaniyah Air quality today
Air quality in Sulaymaniyah currently reads AQI 133 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 133
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 48.3
- tree cover
- 4.6%
- trees in this area
- 14.5K
- more trees needed
- 95.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Raparin, Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 24, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Sulaymaniyah · AQI 133 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Sulaymaniyah's tree count comes to 14,451 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 95,504 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Sulaymaniyah today: AQI 133, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 20:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · BB-Project, 4 km away
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
48.3
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
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Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, BB-Project
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sulaymaniyah's daily AQI at 63 on average, from 53 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 89 on Nov 9.
Where Sulaymaniyah stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Sulaymaniyah: Critically low
4.6% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
14,451
Target trees
109,955
More trees needed
95,504
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,101 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Sulaymaniyah lost?
There was almost no forest around Sulaymaniyah 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Sulaymaniyah right now?
The latest reading for Sulaymaniyah shows an AQI of 133 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 20:00 local time by the BB-Project ground monitoring station, 4 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Sulaymaniyah today?
At AQI 133 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Sulaymaniyah been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Sulaymaniyah's daily AQI at 63 on average, from 53 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 89 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 Sulaymaniyah lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah?
Sulaymaniyah has an estimated 14,451 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 4.6% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Sulaymaniyah need?
Sulaymaniyah needs roughly 95,504 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,101 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Sulaymaniyah's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Raparin, 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 Raparin; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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