Mecca vs Richmond: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Mecca's air was 11% more polluted than Richmond's: PM2.5 averaged 10.2 µg/m³ against 9.2, on the 30 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 16 of those days, Richmond on 14. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 7 of them, Richmond on 2.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Each city's worst days
Mecca
- 23 Sept 20267421.2 µg/m³
- 26 Sept 20266919.0 µg/m³
- 19 Sept 20266818.0 µg/m³
Richmond
- 29 Sept 20266315.5 µg/m³
- 23 Sept 20266215.2 µg/m³
- 8 Sept 20266215.0 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).
Richmond
Side by side with Berkeley (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Use this page
SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Mecca and Richmond, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-mecca/us-richmond-california (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.