Daegu Health Impact
Daegu averaged 12.7 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 2.5x 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 22 mapped monitoring locations in Daegu, South Korea.
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Average EPA AQI
54
Rank 76 of 100 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
12.7
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
April
Cleanest: July
Health indicator
0.6
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Daegu
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Daegu, the current global analytics build covers 287 daily rows from 2024-03-19 to 2024-12-31. The calculations normalize PM2.5 and PM10 observations into US EPA AQI bands so country, city, and tool pages use one consistent method.