Air quality by country
Air quality in Yemen today
Updated
Moderate: average US AQI 51 across 6 cities Worst now: Mukalla (76); cleanest: Sanaa (24).
Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Yemen, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.
- Average US AQI
- 51 Moderate
- Most polluted now
- Mukalla AQI 76
- Cleanest now
- Sanaa AQI 24
- Cities above 100
- 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse
Air quality in Yemen today
Right now the modelled air quality in Yemen averages a US AQI of 51 (Moderate) across the 6 cities we track. By category: 3 Good, 3 Moderate (of 6).
That is 15 points better than the worldwide average of 66 across 3,556 cities.
Mukalla has the worst air at 76 with PM2.5 at 25 µg/m³, while Sanaa is cleanest at 24. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.
Yemen cities by AQI (most polluted first)
| City | Region | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ | Ozone µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mukalla | Muhafazat Hadramaout | 76 | Moderate | 24.8 | 82 |
| Aden | Aden | 67 | Moderate | 22.6 | 89 |
| Taiz | Ta‘izz | 61 | Moderate | 103.1 | 27 |
| Al Ḩudaydah | Al Hudaydah | 50 | Good | 10.3 | 81 |
| Ibb | Ibb Governorate | 27 | Good | 10.3 | 17 |
| Sanaa | Amanat Alasimah | 24 | Good | 3.2 | 27 |
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).