If you would like to add your own air quality feed onto the map, check the data feed page as well as the GAIA air quality monitoring station page.
Clean air is essential for everyone to live, and essential for the right to a healthy environment. Governments and businesses need to take urgent action to implement effective measures to make clean air a reality for everyone.
The air pollution crisis - WHO and the global community calls for urgent action
Ahead of the 2nd WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health (Cartegena, Colombia, 25-27 March 2025), the global health community is making an urgent call to action for clean air, urging governments, business leaders and policy-makers to act swiftly to stop air pollution and save lives.
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Our GAIA air quality monitors are very easy to set up: You only need a WIFI access point and a USB compatible power supply.
Once connected, your real time air pollution levels are instantaneously available on the maps and through the API.
The station comes with a 10-meter water-proof power cable, a USB power supply, mounting equipment and an optional solar panel.
AQI | Air Pollution Level | Health Implications | Cautionary Statement (for PM2.5) |
0 - 50 | Good | Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk | None |
51 -100 | Moderate | Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution. | Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion. |
101-150 | Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups | Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected. | Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion. |
151-200 | Unhealthy | Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects | Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion |
201-300 | Very Unhealthy | Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected. | Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid all outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit outdoor exertion. |
300+ | Hazardous | Health alert: everyone may experience more serious health effects | Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion |