City report · Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Viranşehir Air quality today
Air quality in Viranşehir currently reads AQI 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 106
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 40.2
- tree cover
- 3.2%
- trees in this area
- 10.1K
- more trees needed
- 99.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Viranşehir, 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.
Viranşehir · AQI 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Viranşehir's tree count comes to 10,053 trees across 12.57 km², 32 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 99,903 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Viranşehir today: AQI 106, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 2 station cities within 145 km, e.g. Diyarbakır and Adıyaman
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
40.2
PM10
25.2
NO₂
6.2
O₃
47.0
SO₂
5.4
CO
256.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Viranşehir's daily AQI at 42 on average, from 21 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 83 on Nov 4.
Where Viranşehir stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Viranşehir: Critically low
3.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
10,053
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
99,903
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,198 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Viranşehir lost?
There was almost no forest around Viranşehir 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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Measured cities near Viranşehir
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Siverek70.6 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 129
- Kızıltepe72.9 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 125
- Şanlıurfa85.4 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 80
- Diyarbakır86.9 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 11%
- Air quality
- 85
- Mardin88.0 km
Turkey
- Tree cover
- 2%
- Air quality
- 65
- Al Ḩasakah119.3 km
Syria
- Tree cover
- 1%
- Air quality
- 28
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Viranşehir right now?
The latest reading for Viranşehir shows an AQI of 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 22:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 2 ground-station cities within 145 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Viranşehir today?
At AQI 106 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Viranşehir been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Viranşehir's daily AQI at 42 on average, from 21 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 83 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Viranşehir lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Viranşehir 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 Viranşehir?
Viranşehir has an estimated 10,053 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 3.2% tree cover, 32 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Viranşehir need?
Viranşehir needs roughly 99,903 more trees to close a 32-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 2,198 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Viranşehir'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 Viranşehir; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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