SmogRank / Karonga / Lilongwe

Karonga vs Lilongwe: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Lilongwe's air was about 1.6× as polluted as Karonga's: PM2.5 averaged 50.6 µg/m³ against 32.0, on the 172 days both cities were measured. Lilongwe had the dirtier air on 152 of those days, Karonga on 20. Lilongwe was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 169 of them, Karonga on 135.

Right now

Karonga#25on the 24-hour board of 1,627, at 108 US AQI (38.2 µg/m³)
Lilongwe#10on the 24-hour board of 1,627, at 154 US AQI (59.2 µg/m³)

The last year, day by day

Karonga
Lilongwe
Each city's daily mean from 7 Oct 2025 to 6 Oct 2026, one stripe a day, coloured by band. A blank stripe is a day without a daily mean.

Month by month

15Nov 2025DecJan 2026FebMarKaronga, Apr: 10.9 µg/m³Lilongwe, Apr: 26.3 µg/m³AprKaronga, May: 19.1 µg/m³Lilongwe, May: 40.5 µg/m³MayKaronga, Jun: 30.0 µg/m³Lilongwe, Jun: 58.6 µg/m³JunKaronga, Jul: 43.8 µg/m³Lilongwe, Jul: 63.1 µg/m³JulKaronga, Aug: 52.6 µg/m³Lilongwe, Aug: 56.6 µg/m³AugKaronga, Sep: 40.7 µg/m³Lilongwe, Sep: 65.6 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Karonga. Faded: Lilongwe. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline.

Each city's worst days

Karonga

Lilongwe

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

Karonga

Side by side with Mzuzu, Gujranwala.

Lilongwe

Side by side with Zomba, Blantyre, Gujranwala.

Use this page

SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Karonga and Lilongwe, 28 Jan 2026 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/mw-karonga/mw-lilongwe (accessed 6 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 2026-10-06 22:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.