Since the begining, the World Air Quality Index (WAQI) project team has always been keen on providing a transparent Air Qualitty Infomration to the world citizens.
The WAQI project has also always been keen on providing historical Air Quality Data to relevant institutions and organizations working in the area of environmental awareness, air quality monitoring, as well as health and epidemiological studies. Here are few of our partners and colleagues to which we have been providing historical air quality data information:

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

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 Note that all the figures are converted to AQI using the US EPA standard: i.e. we do not publish the raw concentrations, but only the AQI.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:
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 (WHO).

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 - eg "Daily"

Frequency

Daily

Hourly

Monthly

Weekly

Yearly

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", ..

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

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