Kuala Lumpur haze and air quality today

Friday 9 October: the CAMS global model forecasts a daily mean of 74.9 µg/m³ PM2.5 for Kuala Lumpur today, above the WHO 24-hour guideline of 15 µg/m³; the highest of the next days is 74.9 µg/m³. These are model values. SkyPollen does not yet have a pollen level for Kuala Lumpur: no pollen forecast exists for Malaysia. For the official air pollutant index (API) see APIMS (Department of Environment Malaysia, live air pollutant index).

Forecast bars: daily mean PM2.5 from the Copernicus CAMS global model, as computed, against 150 µg/m³. Green is within the WHO 24-hour guideline (15 µg/m³), amber above it, red above the WHO interim target 1 (75 µg/m³). Model values, not monitor readings.

Haze and allergy in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur sits in the Klang Valley, ringed on three sides by the hills of the Titiwangsa range, so on still days smoke and traffic fumes tend to collect over the city instead of blowing away. Transboundary haze from fires in Sumatra arrives most years between June and October, when the southwest monsoon blows across the Strait of Malacca; in September 2019 it closed schools across the Klang Valley. As in Singapore, the commonest allergy in Kuala Lumpur is to house dust mites rather than to pollen, and no pollen forecast exists for the city.

Read haze and dust mite allergy for what helps on hazy days and at home.

Other cities

• Singapore
  PM2.5 100.6 µg/m³
• Johor Bahru
  PM2.5 100 µg/m³
• Kuala Lumpur
  PM2.5 74.9 µg/m³
• Kuching
  PM2.5 27.8 µg/m³
• Penang
  PM2.5 15.9 µg/m³

Today's daily mean PM2.5 by city, CAMS global model (Copernicus), as computed. Model values, not monitor readings.

Copernicus CAMS global forecast run of 8 October at 08:00 GMT+8, shown as computed. Malaysia's official readings are published by the Department of Environment on APIMS (Department of Environment Malaysia, live air pollutant index); SkyPollen links to them and does not reproduce them.