Giyani vs Malamulele: PM2.5 compared

Giyani and Malamulele were both measured on only one day over the last year, too few to compare them (it takes 30).

Right now

Giyani#138on the 24-hour board of 2,582, at 75 US AQI (22.1 µg/m³)

Malamulele#99on the 24-hour board of 2,582, at 81 US AQI (25.0 µg/m³)

Side by side with Vereeniging (South Africa's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

Side by side with Tshitereke (the nearest), Vereeniging (South Africa's worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).

The same rules as every SmogRank figure: reference monitors first, and a day counts with 18 measured hours. How we measure.

Updated 2026-10-12 22:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.