City report · Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Suruç Air quality today
Air quality in Suruç currently reads AQI 58 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 58
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 11.3
- tree cover
- 1.6%
- trees in this area
- 5.0K
- more trees needed
- 89.2K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Suruç, Şanlıurfa, Türkiye (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Suruç · AQI 58 (Moderate)
Suruç's tree count comes to 5,027 trees across 12.57 km², 28 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 89,221 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Suruç today: AQI 58, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Adıyaman and Gaziantep
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
11.3
PM10
8.0
NO₂
0.9
O₃
82.0
SO₂
2.8
CO
144.0
- 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 Suruç's daily AQI at 38 on average, from 20 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 7.
Where Suruç stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Suruç: Critically low
1.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
5,027
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
89,221
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,963 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Suruç lost?
There was almost no forest around Suruç 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.
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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Questions about Suruç
What is the air quality (AQI) in Suruç right now?
The latest reading for Suruç shows an AQI of 58 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 105 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 Suruç today?
At AQI 58 (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 Suruç been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Suruç's daily AQI at 38 on average, from 20 on Nov 8 to an hourly peak of 66 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Suruç lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Suruç 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 Suruç?
Suruç has an estimated 5,027 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.6% tree cover, 28 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Suruç need?
Suruç needs roughly 89,221 more trees to close a 28-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,963 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Suruç'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 Suruç; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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