Lima vs Mecca: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Mecca's air was about 1.7× as polluted as Lima's: PM2.5 averaged 10.9 µg/m³ against 6.6, on the 66 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 50 of those days, Lima on 16. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 18 of them, Lima on 1.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Each city's worst days
Lima
- 1 Oct 20266315.7 µg/m³
- 2 Sept 20266214.9 µg/m³
- 3 Sept 20265812.9 µg/m³
Mecca
- 21 May 202614854.6 µg/m³
- 1 Oct 20268225.9 µg/m³
- 21 Apr 20268024.5 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
Lima
Side by side with Springfield (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Mecca
Side by side with Indio (the nearest), Hanford (United States's 2nd worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Use this page
SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Lima and Mecca, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-lima/us-mecca (accessed 7 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 2026-10-07 08:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.