Mecca vs Saint Matthews: PM2.5 compared

Over the last year, Mecca's air was about 1.8× as polluted as Saint Matthews's: PM2.5 averaged 12.0 µg/m³ against 6.7, on the 79 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 51 of those days, Saint Matthews on 28. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 24 of them, Saint Matthews on 0.

Right now

Mecca#87on the 24-hour board of 2,002, at 77 US AQI (23.1 µg/m³)

Saint Matthews#1,403on the 24-hour board of 2,002, at 27 US AQI (4.9 µg/m³)

The last year, day by day

Mecca

Saint Matthews

Each city's daily mean from 7 Oct 2025 to 6 Oct 2026, one stripe a day, coloured by band. A blank stripe is a day without a daily mean.

Month by month

Monthly means in µg/m³ over the days both cities were measured. Solid: Mecca. Faded: Saint Matthews. A month shows once both share 10 such days. Dashed line: the WHO daily guideline, 15 µg/m³.

Each city's worst days

Mecca

21 May 202614854.6 µg/m³
16 May 202613047.2 µg/m³
18 May 20269733.8 µg/m³

Saint Matthews

17 Sept 20266013.8 µg/m³
4 Sept 20265813.0 µg/m³
20 Sept 20265812.7 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).

Saint Matthews

Side by side with Jeffersonville (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

Use this page

SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Mecca and Saint Matthews, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-mecca/us-saint-matthews (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.