Taebaek Health Impact
Taebaek averaged 9.7 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 1.9x 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 2 mapped monitoring locations in Gangwon, South Korea.
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Average EPA AQI
46
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PM2.5
9.7
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
April
Cleanest: September
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 Taebaek, the current global analytics build covers 286 daily rows from 2024-03-20 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.