SmogRank / Lünen / Munich

Lünen vs Munich: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Munich's air was about 1.5× as polluted as Lünen's: PM2.5 averaged 9.2 µg/m³ against 6.1, on the 85 days both cities were measured. Munich had the dirtier air on 70 of those days, Lünen on 15. Munich was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 6 of them, Lünen on 2.

Right now

Lünen#421on the 24-hour board of 1,616, at 54 US AQI (10.8 µg/m³)
Munich–not on the 24-hour board right now

The last year, day by day

Lünen
Munich
Each city's daily mean from 6 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026, one stripe a day, coloured by band. A blank stripe is a day without a daily mean.

Month by month

15Nov 2025DecJan 2026FebMarAprMayLünen, Jun: 9.5 µg/m³Munich, Jun: 11.5 µg/m³JunLünen, Jul: 6.1 µg/m³Munich, Jul: 8.4 µg/m³JulLünen, Aug: 5.3 µg/m³Munich, Aug: 8.8 µg/m³AugLünen, Sep: 5.0 µg/m³Munich, Sep: 8.7 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Lünen. Faded: Munich. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline.

Each city's worst days

Lünen

Munich

Daily means in US AQI, over the days both cities were measured in the last year. Each date opens that day's world board.

Compare either city with another

Lünen

Side by side with Dortmund, Gujranwala.

Munich

Side by side with Herrsching am Ammersee, Augsburg, Gujranwala.

Use this page

SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Lünen and Munich, 18 Jun 2026 – 5 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/de-luenen/de-munich (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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Updated 2026-10-06 21:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.