Gelsenkirchen Seasonal Pollution
Gelsenkirchen usually records its highest OpenAQ-derived EPA AQI in January and its cleanest month in April. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Average EPA AQI
47
Rank 28 of 297 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
10.2
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
January
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.5
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Gelsenkirchen
56
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35
51
47
41
50
45
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53
48
What this seasonality page measures
Find each city's worst and cleanest months from daily OpenAQ-derived EPA AQI.
For Gelsenkirchen, the current global analytics build covers 342 daily rows from 2024-01-01 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.