SmogRank / Mecca / Short Pump
Mecca vs Short Pump: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Mecca's air was about 2.0× as polluted as Short Pump's: PM2.5 averaged 12.1 µg/m³ against 6.0, on the 79 days both cities were measured. Mecca had the dirtier air on 53 of those days, Short Pump on 26. Mecca was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 25 of them, Short Pump 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
Short Pump
- 18 May 20266114.3 µg/m³
- 2 Oct 20265812.8 µg/m³
- 19 May 20265712.4 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).
Short Pump
Side by side with Richmond (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
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SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Mecca and Short Pump, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/us-mecca/us-short-pump (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.