---
id: "eu_eaqi_band"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment"]
country: ["EU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eu_eaqi_band"
---

# European Air Quality Index band (`eu_eaqi_band`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Band of the European Air Quality Index that the European Environment Agency computes for each station from the concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3 and SO2. There are six bands: Good, Fair, Moderate, Poor, Very poor and Extremely poor. The index takes the band of the worst pollutant.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment)
- Countries: European Union (EU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:Good|Fair|Moderate|Poor|Very poor|Extremely poor)$
```

## Examples

- `Fair` — Second band; legend of the EEA European Air Quality Index viewer
- `Extremely poor` — Worst band; legend of the EEA European Air Quality Index viewer
- `Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups` (invalid example) — A category of the US AQI, not a band of the European index

## Translations

- ru: Уровень Европейского индекса качества воздуха: Уровень Европейского индекса качества воздуха (EEA) — от Good до Extremely poor, всего шесть уровней. Индекс принимает уровень худшего из загрязнителей.

## Sources

- doc: <https://airindex.eea.europa.eu/>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_quality_index>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eu_eaqi_band.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/EU/environment/eu_eaqi_band.yaml>