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Zahlé Air quality today
Air quality in Zahlé currently reads AQI 27 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 27
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.8
- tree cover
- 7.9%
- trees in this area
- 24.8K
- more trees needed
- 69.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Zahlé, Lebanon (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Zahlé · AQI 27 (Good)
Zahlé's tree count comes to 24,819 trees across 12.57 km², 22 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 69,429 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Zahlé today: AQI 27, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 17:00 local time via OpenAQ ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Red Cross Zahle, 400 m away · median of 2 stations
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
4.8
PM10
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NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: OpenAQ · AirGradient, AWAIR
- 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 Zahlé's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 52 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 112 on Nov 5.
Where Zahlé stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Zahlé: Critically low
7.9% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
24,819
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
69,429
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,527 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Zahlé lost?
There was almost no forest around Zahlé 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 July 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Zahlé
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Beirut37.3 km
Lebanon
- Tree cover
- 10%
- Air quality
- 21
- Damascus51.9 km
Syria
- Tree cover
- 6%
- Air quality
- 24
- Dūmā55.5 km
Syria
- Tree cover
- 5%
- Air quality
- 68
- Sidon58.7 km
Lebanon
- Tree cover
- 22%
- Air quality
- 9
- Nabatîyé et Tahta64.9 km
Lebanon
- Tree cover
- 14%
- Air quality
- 9
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Questions about Zahlé
What is the air quality (AQI) in Zahlé right now?
The latest reading for Zahlé shows an AQI of 27 (Good), measured Nov 11, 17:00 local time by 2 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is Red Cross Zahle, 400 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Zahlé today?
At AQI 27 (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 Zahlé been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Zahlé's daily AQI at 67 on average, from 52 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 112 on Nov 5. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Zahlé lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Zahlé 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 Zahlé?
Zahlé has an estimated 24,819 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 7.9% tree cover, 22 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Zahlé need?
Zahlé needs roughly 69,429 more trees to close a 22-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,527 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Zahlé's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Zahlé, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. 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 Zahlé; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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