Cork Health Impact
Cork averaged 6.5 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 1.3x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.3 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 5 mapped monitoring locations in Munster, Ireland.
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Average EPA AQI
32
Rank 14 of 20 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
6.5
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
November
Cleanest: July
Health indicator
0.3
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Cork
28
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38
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29
37
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55
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Cork, the current global analytics build covers 297 daily rows from 2024-01-29 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.