Newcastle vs Standerton: PM2.5 compared

Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal and Standerton were both measured on only 0 days over the last year, too few to compare them (it takes 30).

Right now

Newcastle#169on the 24-hour board of 2,408, at 71 US AQI (19.7 µg/m³)

Standerton–no readings since 11 Sept

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

Side by side with Morgenzon (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 20:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.