SmogRank / Mecca / North Bend
Mecca vs North Bend: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Mecca's air was about 3.0× as polluted as North Bend's: PM2.5 averaged 12.0 µg/m³ against 4.0, on the 78 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 65 of those days, North Bend on 13. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 24 of them, North Bend on 0.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Each city's worst days
Mecca
- 21 May 202614854.6 µg/m³
- 16 May 202613047.2 µg/m³
- 18 May 20269733.8 µg/m³
North Bend
- 3 May 2026478.5 µg/m³
- 19 Sept 2026427.6 µg/m³
- 2 May 2026407.2 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).
North Bend
Side by side with Issaquah (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Use this page
SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Mecca and North Bend, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-mecca/us-north-bend-washington (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.