SmogRank / Lilongwe / Mzuzu

Lilongwe vs Mzuzu: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Lilongwe's air was about 2.1× as polluted as Mzuzu's: PM2.5 averaged 50.1 µg/m³ against 23.4, on the 185 days both cities were measured. Lilongwe had the dirtier air on 175 of those days, Mzuzu on 10. Lilongwe was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 181 of them, Mzuzu on 119.

Right now

Lilongwe#10on the 24-hour board of 1,627, at 154 US AQI (59.2 µg/m³)
Mzuzu#57on the 24-hour board of 1,627, at 81 US AQI (25.3 µg/m³)

The last year, day by day

Lilongwe
Mzuzu
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 2026FebMarLilongwe, Apr: 26.3 µg/m³Mzuzu, Apr: 5.8 µg/m³AprLilongwe, May: 40.5 µg/m³Mzuzu, May: 12.5 µg/m³MayLilongwe, Jun: 58.6 µg/m³Mzuzu, Jun: 20.4 µg/m³JunLilongwe, Jul: 63.1 µg/m³Mzuzu, Jul: 30.2 µg/m³JulLilongwe, Aug: 56.8 µg/m³Mzuzu, Aug: 38.5 µg/m³AugLilongwe, Sep: 66.7 µg/m³Mzuzu, Sep: 36.5 µg/m³SepOct
Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Lilongwe. Faded: Mzuzu. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline.

Each city's worst days

Lilongwe

Mzuzu

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

Lilongwe

Side by side with Zomba, Blantyre, Gujranwala.

Mzuzu

Side by side with Karonga, Gujranwala.

Use this page

SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Lilongwe and Mzuzu, 21 Jan 2026 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/mw-lilongwe/mw-mzuzu (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.