Kirkstall Health Impact
Kirkstall averaged 8.6 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 1.7x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.4 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 1 mapped monitoring location in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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Average EPA AQI
42
Rank 40 of 171 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
8.6
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
March
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.4
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
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 Kirkstall, the current global analytics build covers 280 daily rows from 2024-01-01 to 2024-10-26. The calculations normalize PM2.5 and PM10 observations into US EPA AQI bands so country, city, and tool pages use one consistent method.