Mecca vs Nashville: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Mecca's air was 35% more polluted than Nashville's: PM2.5 averaged 11.5 µg/m³ against 8.5, on the 43 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 28 of those days, Nashville on 15. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 15 of them, Nashville on 1.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Each city's worst days
Mecca
- 1 Oct 20268225.9 µg/m³
- 6 Oct 20267622.5 µg/m³
- 23 Sept 20267421.2 µg/m³
Nashville
- 11 Apr 20267220.5 µg/m³
- 10 Apr 20266014.0 µg/m³
- 4 Sept 20266013.8 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
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).
Nashville
Side by side with Hendersonville (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Use this page
SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Mecca and Nashville, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-mecca/us-nashville (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.