Kuala Lumpur Health Impact
Kuala Lumpur averaged 17.6 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 3.5x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.8 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 1 mapped monitoring location in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Average EPA AQI
Rank 2 of 2 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
17.6
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
October
Cleanest: January
Health indicator
0.8
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 Kuala Lumpur, the current global analytics build covers 152 daily rows from 2023-12-31 to 2024-10-27. The calculations normalize PM2.5 and PM10 observations into US EPA AQI bands so country, city, and tool pages use one consistent method.