Guayaquil Health Impact
Guayaquil averaged 26.5 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 5.3x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 1.2 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 1 mapped monitoring location in Guayas, Ecuador.
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Average EPA AQI
83
Rank 1 of 2 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
26.5
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
November
Cleanest: December
Health indicator
1.2
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Guayaquil, the current global analytics build covers 61 daily rows from 2024-10-24 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.