SmogRank / Manchester / Gujranwala
Manchester vs Gujranwala: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Gujranwala's air was about 14.2× as polluted as Manchester's: PM2.5 averaged 115.4 µg/m³ against 8.1, on the 363 days both cities were measured. Gujranwala had the dirtier air on 358 of those days, Manchester on 5. Gujranwala was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 363 of them, Manchester on 45.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Manchester | Gujranwala | Days Manchester was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 45 | 169 | 5 |
| 2025 | 41 | 211 | 0 |
Means in US AQI over the days both cities were measured that year; a year shows once they share 30 such days.
Each city's worst days
Manchester
- 13 Jul 202618198.9 µg/m³
- 15 Jul 202615560.8 µg/m³
- 14 Jul 202614954.8 µg/m³
Gujranwala
- 7 Dec 2025500+369.0 µg/m³
- 29 Dec 2025500+365.5 µg/m³
- 19 Dec 2025500+338.0 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
Manchester
Side by side with Ashton-under-Lyne (the nearest), London (United Kingdom's worst on 30 days).
Gujranwala
Side by side with Sialkot (the nearest), Peshawar (Pakistan's 2nd worst on 30 days), Kinshasa (the world's 2nd worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Manchester and Gujranwala, 8 Oct 2025 – 7 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/gb-manchester/pk-gujranwala (accessed 8 Oct 2026).
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The same rules as every SmogRank figure: reference monitors first, and a day counts with 18 measured hours. How we measure.
Updated 2026-10-08 20:07 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).