Sofia Health Impact
Sofia averaged 12.4 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 2.5x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.6 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 7 mapped monitoring locations in Sofia City, Bulgaria.
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Average EPA AQI
51
Rank 15 of 35 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
12.4
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
January
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.6
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Sofia
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Sofia, 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.