Ponferrada Health Impact
Ponferrada averaged 16.6 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 3.3x 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 5 mapped monitoring locations in Castille-Leon, Spain.
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Average EPA AQI
19
Rank 187 of 253 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
16.6
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
January
Cleanest: March
Health indicator
0.8
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Ponferrada
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Ponferrada, the current global analytics build covers 305 daily rows from 2024-01-29 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.