Jaffna Health Impact
Jaffna averaged 17.5 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 1 mapped monitoring location in North Central, Sri Lanka.
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Average EPA AQI
66
Rank 1 of 3 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
17.5
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
December
Cleanest: June
Health indicator
0.8
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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Jaffna
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Jaffna, the current global analytics build covers 250 daily rows from 2024-04-24 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.