Edinburgh Seasonal Pollution
Edinburgh usually records its highest OpenAQ-derived EPA AQI in May and its cleanest month in April. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 2 mapped monitoring locations in Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom.
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Average EPA AQI
29
Rank 130 of 171 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
5.6
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
May
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.3
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Edinburgh
24
25
32
19
43
26
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25
30
30
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What this seasonality page measures
Find each city's worst and cleanest months from daily OpenAQ-derived EPA AQI.
For Edinburgh, the current global analytics build covers 236 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.