Climate
Islamabad logs 158 hot days a year to Lahore's 215 — Islamabad wins by 57. Lahore also leads on outdoor-dinner months by 1.
Islamabad
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Dinner outside
Lahore
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Air Quality
Islamabad averages 47.9 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Lahore's 80.1 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) — Islamabad breathes ~40% cleaner air (32.2 µg/m³ lower).
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WHO classification
City Scale
Both maps at the same real-world scale — 1 cm on either map is the same distance.
Islamabad (4.9M) and Lahore (14.3M) are 2.9x in population — Lahore is the larger metro, Islamabad the smaller; on land area Lahore spans roughly 1.6x more ground.
Lahore is roughly 2.2x the scale of Islamabad
Combined population & area comparison
LahoreIslamabadCity Scale Rankings
Lahore14.3M2.9xIslamabad4.9M1xLahore898 km²1.6xIslamabad550 km²1xIslamabad
Lahore
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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