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Santa Cruz Health Impact

Santa Cruz averaged 3.4 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 0.7x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.2 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 1 mapped monitoring location in Madeira, Portugal.

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Average EPA AQI

17

Rank 47 of 58 cities by average AQI

PM2.5

3.4

ug/m3 annualized city average

Seasonality

December

Cleanest: July

Health indicator

0.2

cigarette-equivalent per day

Yearly EPA AQI trend

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Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap

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Santa Cruz
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What this health page measures

Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.

For Santa Cruz, the current global analytics build covers 309 daily rows from 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-30. 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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