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Tarawa Air quality today
Air quality in Tarawa currently reads AQI 14 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 14
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 2.4
- tree cover
- 21.9%
- trees in this area
- 0
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Bairiki, Kiribati (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 1, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Tarawa · AQI 14 (Good)
Tarawa's tree count comes to 0 trees across 0 km² of land, 8 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 0 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Tarawa today: AQI 14, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
2.4
PM10
4.0
NO₂
0.1
O₃
17.0
SO₂
0.4
CO
101.0
- 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 Tarawa's daily AQI at 18 on average, from 13 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 34 on Nov 11.
Where Tarawa stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Tarawa: Below target
21.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 0 km² of land.
Trees in this area
0
Target trees
0
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Tarawa lost?
There was almost no forest around Tarawa 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.
The forest-loss maps don't cover this area.
2019: satellite photo from November 2019 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 Tarawa right now?
The latest reading for Tarawa shows an AQI of 14 (Good), observed Nov 11, 18:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Tarawa today?
At AQI 14 (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 Tarawa been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Tarawa's daily AQI at 18 on average, from 13 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 34 on Nov 11. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Tarawa lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Tarawa 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 Tarawa?
Tarawa has an estimated 0 trees across the 0 km² of land measured — 21.9% tree cover, 8 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Tarawa need?
Tarawa needs roughly 0 more trees to close a 8-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 0 kg of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Tarawa'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 Bairiki; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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