Paita Health Impact
Paita averaged 9.0 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 1.8x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.4 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 1 mapped monitoring location in Piura, Peru.
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Average EPA AQI
43
Rank 9 of 14 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
9.0
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
July
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.4
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 Paita, 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.