City report · Al Jazirah, Sudan
Wad Medani Air quality today
Air quality in Wad Medani currently reads AQI 85 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 85
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 31.3
- tree cover
- 16.1%
- trees in this area
- 47.1K
- more trees needed
- 40.7K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Wad Madani, Sudan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Wad Medani · AQI 85 (Moderate)
Wad Medani's tree count comes to 47,140 trees across 11.72 km² of land, 14 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 40,699 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Wad Medani today: AQI 85, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:00 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
31.3
PM10
76.1
NO₂
2.4
O₃
75.0
SO₂
2.6
CO
162.0
- 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 Wad Medani's daily AQI at 73 on average, from 55 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 99 on Nov 7.
Where Wad Medani stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Wad Medani: Critically low
16.1% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.72 km² of land.
Trees in this area
47,140
Target trees
87,839
More trees needed
40,699
CO₂ if planted / yr
895.4 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Wad Medani lost?
There was almost no forest around Wad Medani 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 February 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 Wad Medani right now?
The latest reading for Wad Medani shows an AQI of 85 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 20:00 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 Wad Medani today?
At AQI 85 (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 Wad Medani been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Wad Medani's daily AQI at 73 on average, from 55 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 99 on Nov 7. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Wad Medani lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Wad Medani 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 Wad Medani?
Wad Medani has an estimated 47,140 trees across the 11.72 km² of land measured — 16.1% tree cover, 14 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Wad Medani need?
Wad Medani needs roughly 40,699 more trees to close a 14-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 895.4 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Wad Medani'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 Wad Madani; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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