City report · Sohag, Egypt
Ţahţā Air quality today
Air quality in Ţahţā currently reads AQI 264 (Very unhealthy): Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 264
Very unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 193.2
- tree cover
- 14.2%
- trees in this area
- 44.6K
- more trees needed
- 96.8K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Tahta, Suhaj, Egypt (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Ţahţā · AQI 264 (Very unhealthy)
Ţahţā's tree count comes to 44,611 trees across 12.57 km², 31 points below the 45% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 96,761 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Ţahţā today: AQI 264, Very unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
193.2
PM10
1389.5
NO₂
2.4
O₃
102.0
SO₂
3.3
CO
135.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 if you go out
- Air purifier
- Run one on high
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ţahţā's daily AQI at 216 on average, from 179 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 363 on Nov 9.
Where Ţahţā stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Ţahţā: Critically low
14.2% tree cover against a 45% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
44,611
Target trees
141,372
More trees needed
96,761
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,129 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Ţahţā lost?
There was almost no forest around Ţahţā 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 Ţahţā right now?
The latest reading for Ţahţā shows an AQI of 264 (Very unhealthy), observed Nov 10, 15:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Health alert — everyone should avoid long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Ţahţā today?
At AQI 264 (Very unhealthy): everyone should avoid long or hard exercise outdoors; sensitive groups, all outdoor exertion. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 if you go out. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Ţahţā been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Ţahţā's daily AQI at 216 on average, from 179 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 363 on Nov 9. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Ţahţā lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Ţahţā 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 Ţahţā?
Ţahţā has an estimated 44,611 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 14.2% tree cover, 31 percentage points short of the 45% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Ţahţā need?
Ţahţā needs roughly 96,761 more trees to close a 31-point shortfall against its 45% tree-cover target — about 2,129 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Ţahţā'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 Tahta; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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