Climate
Karachi logs 177 hot days a year to Lahore's 215 — Karachi wins by 38. Lahore also leads on outdoor-dinner months by 1.
Karachi
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Lahore
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Air Quality
Karachi averages 63.3 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Lahore's 80.1 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) — Karachi breathes ~21% cleaner air (16.8 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.
Karachi (21.0M) and Lahore (14.3M) are 1.5x in population — Karachi is the larger metro, Lahore the smaller.
Karachi is roughly 1.2x the scale of Lahore
Combined population & area comparison
KarachiLahoreCity Scale Rankings
Karachi21.0M1.5xLahore14.3M1xLahore898 km²1.1xKarachi834 km²1xKarachi
Lahore
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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