Plovdiv Health Impact
Plovdiv averaged 14.7 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 2.9x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.7 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 5 mapped monitoring locations in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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Average EPA AQI
55
Rank 8 of 35 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
14.7
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
January
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.7
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Plovdiv
90
70
61
36
39
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40
41
39
49
74
78
What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Plovdiv, the current global analytics build covers 367 daily rows from 2023-12-31 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.