SmogRank / Middlesbrough / Gujranwala
Middlesbrough vs Gujranwala: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Gujranwala's air was about 28.1× as polluted as Middlesbrough's: PM2.5 averaged 168.5 µg/m³ against 6.0, on the 142 days both cities were measured. Gujranwala had the dirtier air on 142 of those days, Middlesbrough on 0. Gujranwala was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 142 of them, Middlesbrough on 7.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Middlesbrough | Gujranwala | Days Middlesbrough was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 39 | 211 | 0 |
| 2025 | 23 | 194 | 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
Middlesbrough
- 5 Mar 20267924.3 µg/m³
- 9 Mar 20267522.1 µg/m³
- 6 Mar 20267521.9 µg/m³
Gujranwala
- 7 Dec 2025500+369.0 µg/m³
- 19 Dec 2025500+338.0 µg/m³
- 18 Jan 2026500+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
Middlesbrough
Side by side with Thornaby-on-Tees (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, Middlesbrough and Gujranwala, 8 Oct 2025 – 7 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/gb-middlesbrough/pk-gujranwala (accessed 8 Oct 2026).
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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).