Huasco Health Impact
Huasco averaged 18.4 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 3.7x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.8 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 12 mapped monitoring locations in Atacama, Chile.
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Average EPA AQI
68
Rank 53 of 60 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
18.4
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
May
Cleanest: October
Health indicator
0.8
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Huasco
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Huasco, 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.