Enviromental Protection Agency Data Feeds
Submit, update or query your Air Quality data feed

Data Feed Inquiry form
Enter your name - eg "John Doe"
Enter your email address - eg "john.doe@mail.com"
Enter your country or city - eg Tbilisi, Georgia
Enter your data-feed URL - eg "https://airnow.gov/"
Write few words about your request - eg: "A feed for Tbilisi, Georgia is available at ..", "The feed for Sofia, Bulgaria has been updated", "I need help to setup the feed for Dakar, Senegal", "The location of the station Patumahoe in Auckland is incorrect. It's lat,lon is -37.204,174.864", ..


Data Feed template

Publishing data on the World Air Quality Index project is free for every one. But it is also simple and straightforward: All you need to add data on the World Air Quality Index map is to provide a feed URL with the real-time information about the monitoring stations (name and location), the pollutants being measured and the real-time readings (together with the units, for instance milligrams or ppb).


Qualification Criteria

Note that the data published on the World Air Quality Index map is only official data provided by each country respective Environmental Protection Agency (see the full EPA list). Those official data are monitored using professional BAM and TEOM-like Air Quality monitoring stations.

Those stations are not trivial, and do require constant maintenance and calibration by the the EPA professional field-engineering teams. Therefore, except from specific conditions (e.g. if there no coverage in a country or a given region / city), the World Air Quality Index project does not accept any form of data generated from non-professional Air Quality monitors.

If your contry or city does not have official monitoring, it is acceptable to report data from more affordable instant air particule counters (eg PMS, SDS,..). While we do recommend to use the semi-professional GAIA air quality monitoring stations for this purpose, we however accept data from other stations. Nevertheless, such particule counter-based stations need to report enhanced data feed with additional quality controls (see quality control section).

Feed format

Since almost each country has its own reporting format, the World Air Quality Index project can accept many kind of formats for the feeds: They can be in CSV, JSON or just plain text or HTML format. You can find at the bottom of this page 3 example for CSV, HTML and JSON.

You can also check, for reference, the official feeds for Singapore, Peru or Netherlands and notice that they are all different.

Data ingestion

The World Air Quality Index system will take care of regularly checking the data from the feed, and each time an update is available, it will be processed, converted to the US EPA scale AQI values, and publish on the World Air Quality Index website within minutes.

Also, although only PM2.5, PM10, Ozone, NO2, SO2 and CO Air Quality data is published, the system does collect more pollutants for forecasting purpose: Benzen, Toluen, Ethylbenzen, NOx, THC, NMHC, PM1, Formaldehyde, Mercury, Ammonia, Methan, Hydrogen sulfide, Nitrous acid, Phenol, Naphthalene, paraxylene (p-Xylen), metaxylene (m-Xylen), etc..

It is also possible to publish meteorological data: Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure, Humidity, Precipitation, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Solar Radiation and UVI. If not provided, we will use other relevant meteorologic information sources.

Feed Example (CSV format)

 #ID: ID_BEI_DC
#City: Beijing
#Station: Dongcheng
#Name: 东城东四
#Latitude: 39.929
#Longitude: 116.417
#Timezone: +0800
Date,PM10,PM25,CO,Ozone,Sulphur Dioxide,Nitrogen Dioxide,AmbientTemperature,RelativeHumidity,WindDirection,WindSpeed,Pressure,RainGauge
Unit,ug/m3,ug/m3,ppm,µg/m3,µg/m3,µg/m3,°C,%,°,m/s,hPa,mm
10/29/2016 13:00,16,3,,58,10,3,32,66,200,3,1001,0
10/29/2016 14:00,19,8,,57,9,4,32,64,197,2,1001,0
10/29/2016 15:00,15,9,,52,47,17,30,72,190,2,1001,0
10/29/2016 16:00,31,19,,52,34,17,30,75,191,2,1001,0
10/29/2016 17:00,31,17,,49,49,19,29,75,194,1,1002,0
10/29/2016 18:00,37,18,,45,55,25,29,73,183,1,1003,0
10/29/2016 19:00,24,13,,40,21,19,29,80,65,1,1004,0
10/29/2016 20:00,39,22,,44,4,16,28,85,7,1,1005,0
10/29/2016 21:00,24,16,,43,3,7,28,85,10,1,1005,0

Feed Example (HTML format)

This is an example based on an HTML format (direct url: publishingdata/html/):
Station list:
Station IDCity or County NameStation NameLocal name (optional)Latitude/LongitudeTimezone (optional)
ID_BEI_DCBeijingDongcheng东城东四39.929/116.417+0800
ID_BEI_WPBeijingWest Park西城官园39.929/116.339+0800
ID_BEI_OPBeijingOlympic Park朝阳奥体中心39.982/116.397+0800
..................
  • The "Station ID" is the unique identifer for each station, and it can just be a number (eg ID8373), or the concatenation of station city and station name (eg. "Beijing/Dongcheng").
  • By default, the station will be available via the url /city/country-name/city-name/station-name.
  • The "Station Name" must use latin characters, so the optional "Local Name" can be provided to localize the webpage.

Real-time pollutant list:
Station IDPollutantUnitUpdate timeValueAveraging
ID_BEI_DCPM10mg/m32019/06/03 17:00:0027.81 hour
ID_BEI_DCPM25mg/m32019/06/03 17:00:0010.81 hour
ID_BEI_DCOzonemg/m32019/06/03 17:00:0015.21 hour
ID_BEI_DCOzonemg/m32019/06/03 17:00:0018.28 hours
ID_BEI_DCTemperatureCelcius2019/06/03 17:00:0022.31 hour
ID_BEI_WPPM10mg/m32019/06/03 17:00:0027.81 hour
ID_BEI_WPPM25mg/m32019/06/03 17:00:0010.81 hour
ID_BEI_WPSO2ppb2019/06/03 17:00:0015.21 hour
ID_BEI_WPHumidiy%2019/06/03 17:00:00881 hour
...............
  • The "Averaging" column is use to specify the duration of the value. The most common averaging is 1 hour. It is also the prefered one, as our backend system will automatically do the 8 hour averagin computation for the Ozone and Carbon Monoxyde.
  • In the case the readings are provided more freqently than every hour (for instance every 30 minutes or 10 minutes), you can either provide the raw readings for the given period, or just the hourly averaging: Our back-end system will anyway process data even between the hour.

Feed Example (JSON format)

This is an example based on JSON format (direct url: /publishingdata/json/)
..

Quality Control for particule counter sensors

For instant particule counters, such as the Plantower PMS or Nova SDS, which provide instantaneous (in few seconds) particulate matter readings, the data is usually reported every minute. This data is usually computed based on several "averaged" readings from a one or two minute period.

The use of averaging is however not good enough, especially for failing sensors (or sensor close of end-of-life). Therefore, for such sensors, it is required to provide additonal metrics, such as the median, min, max, and standard-deviation. See for example the readings object in the below JSON data feed.
..
You can use the following arduino-compatible code to collect those metrics:
class Accumulator 
{ 
    #define OUTPUT_BUFFER_SIZE 120 
    char buffer[OUTPUT_BUFFER_SIZE]; 
 
    #define MAXACCVALUES 120 
    int vals[MAXACCVALUES]; 
 
    int count = 0; 
 
public: 
    Accumulator() 
    { 
        reset(); 
    } 
 
    void reset() 
    { 
        count = 0; 
        for (int i=0;i< MAXACCVALUES;i++)  
        { 
            vals[i]=0; 
        } 
    } 
 
    bool hasData()  
    { 
        return count!=0; 
    } 
 
    std::string output()  
    { 
        if (!hasData()) return std::string("{}"); 
 
        sprintf(buffer, OUTPUT_BUFFER_SIZE, "{\"min\":%d,\"max\":%d,\"median\":%d,\"average\":%.1f,\"stddev\":%.1f,\"count\":%d}",  
            vmin(), vmax(), median(), average(), stddev(), count); 
 
        return std::string(buffer); 
 
    } 
 
    void add(int val) 
    { 
        if (count==MAXACCVALUES-1) { 
          for (int i = 0; i < MAXACCVALUES - 1; i++) { 
            vals[i] = vals[i + 1]; 
            } 
            count --; 
        } 
        vals[count++]=val; 
    } 
 
    float stddev()  
    { 
        if (!hasData()) return -1; 
        int u  =avg(); 
        int t = 0; 
        for (int i=0;ivals[j]) { 
                    float t = vals[j]; 
                    vals[j]=vals[i]; 
                    vals[i]=t; 
                } 
  
            } 
        } 
        return vals[count/2]; 
    } 
 
    float avg()  
    { 
        if (!hasData()) return -1; 
        float t = 0; 
        for (int i=0;ivals[i]) { 
                t=vals[i]; 
            } 
        } 
        return t; 
    } 
 
    float vmax()  
    { 
        if (!hasData()) return -1; 
        float t = vals[0]; 
        for (int i=0;it) { 
                t=vals[i]; 
            } 
        } 
        return t; 
    } 
};

关于空气质量与空气污染指数

本网站采用的污染指数和颜色与EPA是完全相同的。 EPA的指数可以从 AirNow上查到

空气质量指数 空气质量指数级别(状况)及表示颜色 对健康影响情况 建议采取的措施
0 - 50 一级(优) 空气质量令人满意,基本无空气污染 各类人群可正常活动
51 -100 二级(良) 空气质量可接受,但某些污染物可能对极少数异常敏感人群健康有较弱影响 极少数异常敏感人群应减少户外活动
101-150 三级(轻度污染) 易感人群症状有轻度加剧,健康人群出现刺激症状 儿童、老年人及心脏病、呼吸系统疾病患者应减少长时间、高强度的户外锻炼
151-200 四级(中度污染) 进一步加剧易感人群症状,可能对健康人群心脏、呼吸系统有影响 儿童、老年人及心脏病、呼吸系统疾病患者避免长时间、高强度的户外锻炼,一般人群适量减少户外运动
201-300 五级(重度污染) 心脏病和肺病患者症状显著加剧,运动耐受力降低,健康人群普遍出现症状 儿童、老年人及心脏病、肺病患者应停留在室内,停止户外运动,一般人群减少户外运动
300+ 六级(严重污染) 健康人群运动耐受力降低,有明显强烈症状,提前出现某些疾病 儿童、老年人和病人应停留在室内,避免体力消耗,一般人群避免户外活动
(参考详见 http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/空气质量指数)

如果你想了解更多有关空气质量与污染,详见维基百科或者 AirNow

有关健康建议详见北京的Richard Saint Cyr MD医生的博客:www.myhealthbeijing.com


注意事项: 所有空气质量数据在发布时均未经验证,并且为了保证数据质量,这些数据可能随时被修改,恕不另行通知。 世界空气质量指数项目在编制此信息的内容时已经运用了所有合理的技能和谨慎,在任何情况下世界空气质量指数项目团队或其代理人将不会为由于提供此数据而直接或间接引起的伤害、合同损失、侵权及其他任何损失负责。



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