Kuching haze and air quality today

Friday 9 October: the CAMS global model forecasts a daily mean of 27.8 µg/m³ PM2.5 for Kuching today, above the WHO 24-hour guideline of 15 µg/m³; the highest of the next days is 31.7 µg/m³. These are model values. SkyPollen does not yet have a pollen level for Kuching: 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 Kuching

Kuching, the capital of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, is the closest of these cities to the peatlands of Kalimantan, where the worst fires of the region burn in dry El Nino years. In September 1997 Kuching's air pollutant index reached 839 and Sarawak declared a state of emergency, one of the worst haze episodes ever recorded anywhere. In ordinary years the city's heavy rainfall keeps the air clean for most of the year, and the haze risk is concentrated in the dry weeks from August to October.

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.