Air quality by country
Air quality in Sudan today
Updated
Moderate: average US AQI 76 across 11 cities Worst now: Khartoum (98); cleanest: Al Qadarif (56).
Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Sudan, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.
- Average US AQI
- 76 Moderate
- Most polluted now
- Khartoum AQI 98
- Cleanest now
- Al Qadarif AQI 56
- Cities above 100
- 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse
Air quality in Sudan today
Right now the modelled air quality in Sudan averages a US AQI of 76 (Moderate) across the 11 cities we track. By category: 11 Moderate (of 11).
That is 11 points worse than the worldwide average of 65 across 3,909 cities.
Khartoum has the worst air at 98 with PM2.5 at 35 µg/m³, while Al Qadarif is cleanest at 56. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.
Sudan cities by AQI (most polluted first)
| City | Region | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ | Ozone µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khartoum | Khartoum | 98 | Moderate | 34.7 | 57 |
| Omdurman | Khartoum | 98 | Moderate | 34.7 | 57 |
| Khartoum North | Khartoum | 98 | Moderate | 34.7 | 57 |
| El Obeid | North Kordofan | 81 | Moderate | 34.8 | 68 |
| Kosti | White Nile | 74 | Moderate | 23.5 | 64 |
| Wad Medani | Al Jazirah | 74 | Moderate | 27.9 | 68 |
| Rabak | White Nile | 74 | Moderate | 23.5 | 64 |
| Nyala | Southern Darfur | 72 | Moderate | 15 | 54 |
| Port Sudan | Red Sea | 58 | Moderate | 11.2 | 60 |
| Kassala | Kassala | 57 | Moderate | 9.6 | 52 |
| Al Qadarif | Al Qaḑārif | 56 | Moderate | 9.2 | 60 |
What the US AQI numbers mean
| US AQI | Category | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 0-50 | Good | Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no risk; a good time for outdoor activity. |
| 51-100 | Moderate | Acceptable for most people. Unusually sensitive people should consider shortening long or heavy exertion outdoors. |
| 101-150 | Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups | People with heart or lung disease, older adults, children and teens should cut back on prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors. |
| 151-200 | Unhealthy | Everyone should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors; sensitive groups should avoid it and keep windows closed. |
| 201-300 | Very Unhealthy | Health alert: everyone should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors, and sensitive groups should stay indoors. |
| 301-500 | Hazardous | Emergency conditions: everyone should avoid all outdoor physical activity and stay indoors with filtered air if possible. The scale tops out at 500; heavier dust or smoke is shown as 500. |
Modelled by CAMS (Copernicus) via Open-Meteo, refreshed twice a day; read hour by hour from the forecast.
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Data: Open-Meteo Air Quality API, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).