Arequipa Health Impact
Arequipa averaged 12.8 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 2.6x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.6 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in Arequipa, Peru.
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Average EPA AQI
57
Rank 5 of 14 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
12.8
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
March
Cleanest: May
Health indicator
0.6
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 Arequipa, the current global analytics build covers 280 daily rows from 2024-03-28 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.