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Tabuk Air quality today
Air quality in Tabuk currently reads AQI 94 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 94
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 28.8
- tree cover
- 2.6%
- trees in this area
- 8.2K
- more trees needed
- 86.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Mahrajan, Tabuk Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Tabuk · AQI 94 (Moderate)
Tabuk's tree count comes to 8,168 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 86,080 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Tabuk today: AQI 94, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
28.8
PM10
92.9
NO₂
0.8
O₃
89.0
SO₂
4.8
CO
123.0
- 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 Tabuk's daily AQI at 69 on average, from 55 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 10.
Where Tabuk stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Tabuk: Critically low
2.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
8,168
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
86,080
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,894 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Tabuk lost?
There was almost no forest around Tabuk 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 July 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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Beersheba360.6 km
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- Air quality
- 46
- Hebron376.0 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Tabuk right now?
The latest reading for Tabuk shows an AQI of 94 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 14:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, 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 Tabuk today?
At AQI 94 (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 Tabuk been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Tabuk's daily AQI at 69 on average, from 55 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 153 on Nov 10. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Tabuk lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Tabuk 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 Tabuk?
Tabuk has an estimated 8,168 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.6% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Tabuk need?
Tabuk needs roughly 86,080 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,894 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Tabuk'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 Al Mahrajan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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