Nairobi Health Impact
Nairobi averaged 37.0 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 7.4x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 1.7 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in Nairobi City, Kenya.
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Average EPA AQI
105
Rank 1 of 3 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
37.0
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
September
Cleanest: November
Health indicator
1.7
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 Nairobi, the current global analytics build covers 107 daily rows from 2024-03-07 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.