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Huaycan Health Impact

Huaycan averaged 73.3 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 14.7x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 3.3 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 6 mapped monitoring locations in Lima, Peru.

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Average EPA AQI

152

Rank 1 of 14 cities by average AQI

PM2.5

73.3

ug/m3 annualized city average

Seasonality

June

Cleanest: February

Health indicator

3.3

cigarette-equivalent per day

Yearly EPA AQI trend

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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 Huaycan, the current global analytics build covers 362 daily rows from 2024-01-03 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.

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