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Zliten Air quality today
Air quality in Zliten currently reads AQI 36 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 36
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 6.7
- tree cover
- 2.6%
- trees in this area
- 8.2K
- more trees needed
- 86.1K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Zliten, Libya (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 10, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Zliten · AQI 36 (Good)
Zliten's tree count comes to 8,168 trees across 12.57 km², 27 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 86,080 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Zliten today: AQI 36, Good
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 06:00 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
6.7
PM10
18.1
NO₂
4.2
O₃
38.0
SO₂
0.8
CO
203.0
- 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 Zliten's daily AQI at 31 on average, from 28 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 47 on Nov 7.
Where Zliten stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Zliten: Critically low
2.6% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
8,168
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
86,080
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,894 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Zliten lost?
There was almost no forest around Zliten 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
In the same region
Measured cities near Zliten
Same 2 km radius, same index — so they compare directly.
- Tājūrā’123.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 4%
- Air quality
- 31
- Qaşr Bin Ghashīr132.0 km
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- Tree cover
- 7%
- Air quality
- 36
- Janzūr150.4 km
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- Tree cover
- 3%
- Air quality
- 31
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Zliten right now?
The latest reading for Zliten shows an AQI of 36 (Good), observed Nov 11, 06:00 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 Zliten today?
At AQI 36 (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 Zliten been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Zliten's daily AQI at 31 on average, from 28 on Nov 5 to an hourly peak of 47 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 Zliten lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Zliten 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 Zliten?
Zliten has an estimated 8,168 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 2.6% tree cover, 27 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Zliten need?
Zliten needs roughly 86,080 more trees to close a 27-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,894 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Zliten'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 Zliten; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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