Yŏju Health Impact
Yŏju averaged 17.4 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 3.5x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.8 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 3 mapped monitoring locations in Gyeonggi, South Korea.
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Average EPA AQI
64
Rank 19 of 100 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
17.4
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
April
Cleanest: September
Health indicator
0.8
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Yŏju
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Yŏju, 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.