Beijing Health Impact
Beijing averaged 43.1 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 8.6x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 2.0 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in Beijing, China.
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Average EPA AQI
111
Rank 1 of 6 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
43.1
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
April
Cleanest: December
Health indicator
2.0
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Beijing
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Beijing, the current global analytics build covers 357 daily rows from 2024-01-02 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.