Dhaka Health Impact
Dhaka averaged 98.4 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 19.7x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 4.5 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 1 mapped monitoring location in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.
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Average EPA AQI
178
Rank 2 of 2 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
98.4
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
January
Cleanest: July
Health indicator
4.5
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Dhaka
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Dhaka, the current global analytics build covers 357 daily rows from 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31. The calculations normalize PM2.5 and PM10 observations into US EPA AQI bands so country, city, and tool pages use one consistent method.