Nanaimo Health Impact
Nanaimo averaged 4.5 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 0.9x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.2 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in British Columbia, Canada.
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Average EPA AQI
24
Rank 117 of 158 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
4.5
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
October
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.2
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Nanaimo
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Nanaimo, the current global analytics build covers 367 daily rows from 2024-01-01 to 2025-01-01. The calculations normalize PM2.5 and PM10 observations into US EPA AQI bands so country, city, and tool pages use one consistent method.