Climate
Karachi logs 7 outdoor-dinner months a year to Peshawar's 8 — Peshawar wins by 1. Karachi also leads on sunny days by 27.
Karachi
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Peshawar
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Air Quality
Karachi averages 63.3 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Peshawar's 78.1 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) — Karachi breathes ~19% cleaner air (14.8 µg/m³ lower).
Karachi
Peshawar
PM2.5 annual average
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 Peshawar (3.5M) are 6.0x in population — Karachi is the larger metro, Peshawar the smaller; on land area Karachi spans roughly 1.6x more ground.
Karachi is roughly 3.1x the scale of Peshawar
Combined population & area comparison
KarachiPeshawarCity Scale Rankings
Karachi21.0M6.0xPeshawar3.5M1xKarachi834 km²1.6xPeshawar508 km²1xKarachi
Peshawar
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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