Medellín Health Impact
Medellín averaged 22.2 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 4.4x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 1.0 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 4 mapped monitoring locations in Antioquia, Colombia.
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Average EPA AQI
75
Rank 3 of 13 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
22.2
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
March
Cleanest: June
Health indicator
1.0
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Medellín
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Medellín, the current global analytics build covers 248 daily rows from 2024-01-01 to 2024-09-05. The calculations normalize PM2.5 and PM10 observations into US EPA AQI bands so country, city, and tool pages use one consistent method.