Mecca vs Rose Hill: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Mecca's air was about 2.2× as polluted as Rose Hill's: PM2.5 averaged 12.1 µg/m³ against 5.4, on the 80 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 57 of those days, Rose Hill on 23. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 25 of them, Rose Hill 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
Rose Hill
- 18 May 20266215.0 µg/m³
- 19 May 20265813.0 µg/m³
- 16 Apr 20265511.3 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).
Rose Hill
Side by side with Springfield (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Mecca and Rose Hill, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-mecca/us-rose-hill (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.