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Bern Health Impact

Bern averaged 11.3 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 2.3x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.5 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 3 mapped monitoring locations in Bern, Switzerland.

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Average EPA AQI

48

Rank 8 of 33 cities by average AQI

PM2.5

11.3

ug/m3 annualized city average

Seasonality

December

Cleanest: May

Health indicator

0.5

cigarette-equivalent per day

Yearly EPA AQI trend

0501002024Bern

Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Bern
46
41
42
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25
44
40
53
43
51
65
68

What this health page measures

Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.

For Bern, the current global analytics build covers 296 daily rows from 2024-01-01 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.

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