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Air Quality

Help your customers breathe safer

Provide air quality data and insights that help people reduce their exposure to pollution.
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Air quality map with measurements and meter

Global coverage

Offer air quality data and insights to users all over the world.

Hyper-local

Pinpoint the air quality at a 500-meter resolution.

Hourly data

Get continuously-validated data checked against multiple sources.

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Key features
4-day hourly forecast new
Provide up to 4 days of forecasted hourly air quality information, complete with pollutant data and recommendations.
30-day hourly history
Provide a full 30 days of hourly air quality information, complete with pollutant data and recommendations.
Multiple indexes
Choose from over 70 local indexes, or use the universal air quality index.
Actionable recommendations
Offer generic tips to help reduce exposure to air pollutants—including recommendations for general and more sensitive population groups.1
Heatmap options
Create colorful visualizations using air quality indexes and pollutant image tiles.
In-depth pollutant details
Display detailed information about pollutants including the dominant pollutant, concentrations, sources, and effects.
How you can use it
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Help people avoid breathing hazards
Incorporate air quality data into treatment plans and symptom trackers to help people more actively manage their health.1
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Make buildings smarter
Manage the health of buildings more effectively by programming HVAC systems to respond to local air quality.
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Add air quality data to your app or website
Give users one more reason to return with regularly-updated information about the air quality around them.
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Help travelers choose healthier routes
Help people choose routes for hiking, cycling, or driving that avoid upcoming pollution with air quality insights.
See Air Quality in action
Explore air quality heatmaps
Interact with a map of over 100 countries, where you can explore 70 air quality indexes (AQIs), detailed pollutant information, and health recommendations.1
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When air pollution became something that cities wanted to actively monitor, we sought reliable, accurate, high-fidelity air quality data to help them, especially in dense urban areas, and the Air Quality API provided answers.
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Director of Technology, Orange Barrel Media
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  • 1 World Health Organization and other regional authoritative sources identify AQI categories (color and range) for sensitive populations. Our Air Quality and Pollen APIs provide data and recommendations based on those sources. We do not process health data or personalize for the customers' end users.

  • *Free usage refers to monthly calls available at no cost. Essentials Map Tiles APIs provide up to 100,000 calls at no cost per SKU per month.

  • Product availability, functionality and terms may differ for customers with billing addresses in the European Economic Area (EEA). Learn more