SmogRank / Copenhagen / Malmö
Copenhagen vs Malmö: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Copenhagen's air was 10% more polluted than Malmö's: PM2.5 averaged 11.5 µg/m³ against 10.5, on the 120 days both cities were measured. Copenhagen had the dirtier air on 48 of those days, Malmö on 70. Copenhagen was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 32 of them, Malmö on 23.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Each city's worst days
Copenhagen
- 10 Mar 202615359.0 µg/m³
- 8 Mar 202615155.9 µg/m³
- 9 Mar 202613850.6 µg/m³
Malmö
- 8 Mar 202611440.9 µg/m³
- 10 Mar 202611340.2 µg/m³
- 9 Mar 20269935.0 µg/m³
Daily means in US AQI, with µg/m³ beside them, since the index stops at its top value, over the days both cities were measured in the last year. Each date opens that day's world board.
Compare either city with another
Copenhagen
Side by side with Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Malmö
Side by side with Lund (the nearest), Gothenburg (Sweden's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Copenhagen and Malmö, 9 Oct 2025 – 8 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/dk-copenhagen/se-malmoe (accessed 9 Oct 2026).
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Updated 2026-10-09 12:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).