City report · Mangystau, Kazakhstan
Zhanaozen Air quality today
Air quality in Zhanaozen currently reads AQI 44 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Air quality right now
AQI 44
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 10.0
- tree cover
- 0.6%
- trees in this area
- 1.9K
- more trees needed
- 92.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Samal, Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 23, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Zhanaozen · AQI 44 (Good)
Zhanaozen's tree count comes to 1,885 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 92,363 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Zhanaozen today: AQI 44, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 09:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
10.0
PM10
66.1
NO₂
0.6
O₃
49.0
SO₂
1.0
CO
122.0
- 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 Zhanaozen's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 17 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 134 on Nov 5.
Where Zhanaozen stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Zhanaozen: Critically low
0.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
1,885
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
92,363
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,032 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Zhanaozen lost?
There was very little forest around Zhanaozen in 2000, about 18 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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.
The worst year was 2010, when about 1 hectare of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2004 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2005 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2006 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2007 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2008 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2009 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2010 | under 1 ha | 1 ha | 1 ha |
| 2011 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2012 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2013 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2014 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2015 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2016 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2017 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2018 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2019 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2020 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2021 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2022 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2023 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2024 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
| 2025 | under 1 ha | under 1 ha | under 1 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Zhanaozen?
- Storms, floods and other natural causescan grow back35% · under 1 ha
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good20% · under 1 ha
- Unknown causescause unknown40% · under 1 ha
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
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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Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
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- 2%
- Air quality
- 12
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
- 60
- Derbent399.7 km
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- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 43
- Sumgayit404.1 km
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- Tree cover
- 16%
- Air quality
- 61
- Baku411.1 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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- Khirdalan411.8 km
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- Tree cover
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- Air quality
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Zhanaozen right now?
The latest reading for Zhanaozen shows an AQI of 44 (Good), observed Nov 11, 09:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Zhanaozen today?
At AQI 44 (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 Zhanaozen been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Zhanaozen's daily AQI at 53 on average, from 17 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 134 on Nov 5. On 1 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Zhanaozen lost since 2001?
There was very little forest around Zhanaozen in 2000, about 18 hectares, and about 2 hectares of it has been lost 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 Zhanaozen?
Zhanaozen has an estimated 1,885 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.6% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Zhanaozen need?
Zhanaozen needs roughly 92,363 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,032 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Zhanaozen'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 Samal; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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