City report · Basra, Iraq
Umm Qaşr Air quality today
Air quality in Umm Qaşr currently reads AQI 66 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 66
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 15.1
- tree cover
- 0.9%
- trees in this area
- 2.8K
- more trees needed
- 91.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Um Qasr, Basra Governorate, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Umm Qaşr · AQI 66 (Moderate)
Umm Qaşr's tree count comes to 2,827 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 91,420 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Umm Qaşr today: AQI 66, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Kuwait City and Al Jahra
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
15.1
PM10
188.6
NO₂
17.2
O₃
52.0
SO₂
13.1
CO
241.0
- 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 Umm Qaşr's daily AQI at 161 on average, from 122 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 274 on Nov 7.
Where Umm Qaşr stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Umm Qaşr: Critically low
0.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
2,827
Target trees
94,247
More trees needed
91,420
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,011 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Umm Qaşr lost?
There was almost no forest around Umm Qaşr 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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What is the air quality (AQI) in Umm Qaşr right now?
The latest reading for Umm Qaşr shows an AQI of 66 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 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 Umm Qaşr today?
At AQI 66 (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 Umm Qaşr been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Umm Qaşr's daily AQI at 161 on average, from 122 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 274 on Nov 7. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Umm Qaşr lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Umm Qaşr 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 Umm Qaşr?
Umm Qaşr has an estimated 2,827 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.9% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Umm Qaşr need?
Umm Qaşr needs roughly 91,420 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,011 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Umm Qaşr'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 Um Qasr; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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