Rancagua Health Impact
Rancagua averaged 32.7 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 6.5x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 1.5 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins, Chile.
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Average EPA AQI
Rank 15 of 60 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
32.7
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
July
Cleanest: December
Health indicator
1.5
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Rancagua, the current global analytics build covers 365 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.