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In order to make the historical Air Quality Data dissemination even more relevant, the World Air Quality Index team has been investigating with the most relevant international institutions the possibility to setup an open data framework. Here are fews of the institutions we have engaged:

• WHO - World Health Organization
• UNEP - United Nation Environmental Program
• UNIDO - United Nation Industrial Development Organization
• WMO - World Meteorological Organization
• GEO - Group on Earth Observations
• WRI - World Resource Institute
• CCA - Climate & Clean Air Coalition
• UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The open data framework objective is to provide unlimited and free access the world historical and real-time Air Quality data from the 100+ countries covered on aqicn.org Everyone - both institutions as well as citizens - agrees that this is not only a good idea, but that it should *just* happen.

The daily average air quality data for all of the stations can be downloaded freely from the form below. Note that all the figures are converted to AQI using the US EPA standard: i.e. we do not publish the raw concentrations, but only the AQI.


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Notes:
If you want to download multiple stations at once, covering the COVID-19 period, go to the COVID-19 data page instead. You can find a ~28MB downloadable data-set covering more than 380 cities worldwide.

The Air Quality data is currently only available for the past 7 years, from 2014 until now. If you need data before this period, we recommend to either contact the originating EPA, or consider using estimates based on remote sensing data. You can for instance check the catalog from the AERIS/ICARE project, which is archiving satellite data since 2000.

In the above data, we publish the "Individual pollutant" Air Quality index. For instance, if you check the figures for PM_2.5, they correspond to the PM_2.5 individual AQI (noted as AQI_PM2.5). If you want to calculate the overall AQI, aka composite AQI, you need to take the maximum of all individual AQI:

AQI = max( AQI_PM2.5, AQI_PM10, AQI_O3, ...)
Last if you need the real-time data instead, try the API page. It's free too!

If the above data does not work for you, and you are from an international institution, organization or university you can register your interest with the form below. Note that this registration is only at intent level, for us to consolidate the list of all interested parties, and does not bound you, nor the world air quality index project, to any obligations.

Institution & University Registration - subscription form

Your information

Enter your name - eg "John Doe"

Enter your email address - eg "john.doe@mail.com"

Enter your organization - eg "Harvard Business School"

Enter your position - eg "Student, Researcher, Head"

Data information

Data Period - eg "June 2018" to "August 2018"

Start date

Stop date

Data Frequency

Frequency

Daily

Hourly

Monthly

Weekly

Yearly

Data Units

AQI or Raw

Raw Concentration

USEPA AQI

Enter the name of the stations you need the data for - eg "Beijing"
Name of a station, eg Beijing

Tell us a bit more

Write few words about your request - eg: "I would like to get the daily max AQI for Berlin for Winter 2014", "I would like to know the hourly concentration of SO2 for Civil Lines in Delhi on June 18th 2015", "I would like to support your project and give you hand", ..

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The open data framework would not be possible without the work from the worldwide EPA, which should get the credits for their monitoring programs.

О уровнях качества воздуха

-	Индекс качества воздуха (ИКВ = AQI) Значения	Уровни концерна здравоохранения
0 - 50	хорошо	Качество воздуха считается удовлетворительным, и загрязнение воздуха представляется незначительным в пределах нормы.
51 -100	удовлетворительное	Качество воздуха является приемлемым; однако некоторые загрязнители могут представлять опасность для людей, являющихся особо чувствительным к загрязнению воздуха.
101-150	Нездоровый для чувствительных групп	Может оказывать эффект на особо чувствительную группу лиц. На среднего представителя не оказывает видимого воздействия.
151-200	нездоровый	Каждый может начать испытывать последствия для своего здоровья; особо чувствительные люди могут испытывать более серьезные последствия.
201-300	Очень Нездоровый	Опасность для здоровья от чрезвычайных условий. Это отразится, вероятно, на всем населении.
300+	опасный	Опасность для здоровья: каждый человек может испытывать более серьезные последствия для здоровья

To know more about Air Quality and Pollution, check the wikipedia Air Quality topic or the airnow guide to Air Quality and Your Health.

For very useful health advices of Beijing Doctor Richard Saint Cyr MD, check www.myhealthbeijing.com blog.