Guatemala City Health Impact
Guatemala City averaged 16.4 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 3.3x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.7 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in Guatemala Department, Guatemala.
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Average EPA AQI
Rank 2 of 2 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
16.4
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
May
Cleanest: December
Health indicator
0.7
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 Guatemala City, the current global analytics build covers 241 daily rows from 2024-01-17 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.