City report · Medina Region, Saudi Arabia
Yanbu Air quality today
Air quality in Yanbu currently reads AQI 59 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
AQI 59
Air quality right now
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 13.4
- tree cover
- 0.4%
- trees in this area
- 1.1K
- more trees needed
- 84.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Saharij, Yanbu 46424, Saudi Arabia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 25, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Yanbu · AQI 59 (Moderate)
Yanbu's tree count comes to 1,141 trees across 11.41 km² of land, 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 84,436 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Yanbu today: AQI 59, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 14:00 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
13.4
PM10
26.9
NO₂
6.5
O₃
100.0
SO₂
22.4
CO
185.0
- 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 Yanbu's daily AQI at 85 on average, from 65 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 132 on Nov 6.
Where Yanbu stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Yanbu: Critically low
0.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 11.41 km² of land.
Trees in this area
1,141
Target trees
85,577
More trees needed
84,436
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,858 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Yanbu lost?
There was almost no forest around Yanbu 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 March 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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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Ta’if395.7 km
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- Air quality
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- Air quality
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Yanbu right now?
The latest reading for Yanbu shows an AQI of 59 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 14:00 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 Yanbu today?
At AQI 59 (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 Yanbu been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Yanbu's daily AQI at 85 on average, from 65 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 132 on Nov 6. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Yanbu lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Yanbu 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 Yanbu?
Yanbu has an estimated 1,141 trees across the 11.41 km² of land measured — 0.4% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Yanbu need?
Yanbu needs roughly 84,436 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,858 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Yanbu'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 Al Saharij; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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