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Opfikon Health Impact

Opfikon averaged 13.2 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 2.6x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.6 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Average EPA AQI

51

Rank 5 of 33 cities by average AQI

PM2.5

13.2

ug/m3 annualized city average

Seasonality

November

Cleanest: September

Health indicator

0.6

cigarette-equivalent per day

Yearly EPA AQI trend

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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 Opfikon, the current global analytics build covers 364 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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