SmogRank / Mecca / Ponte Vedra Beach
Mecca vs Ponte Vedra Beach: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Mecca's air was about 1.6× as polluted as Ponte Vedra Beach's: PM2.5 averaged 12.1 µg/m³ against 7.7, on the 80 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 44 of those days, Ponte Vedra Beach on 35. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 25 of them, Ponte Vedra Beach on 1.
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
Ponte Vedra Beach
- 7 May 20266416.3 µg/m³
- 8 May 20266013.7 µg/m³
- 8 Apr 20265812.9 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).
Ponte Vedra Beach
Side by side with Jacksonville (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Mecca and Ponte Vedra Beach, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-mecca/us-ponte-vedra-beach (accessed 7 Oct 2026).
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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.