According to figures provided by the American consultancy INRIX, an expert in traffic analysis, the Catalan capital is the one with the lowest speed of its vehicles in the last kilometre and a half of the journey to the destination, with an average of less than 20 km/h.

In total, this means that vehicle users in the metropolitan area of ​​the city lose an average of 39 hours a year in traffic jams.

The city of Barcelona is just a few hours ahead of Madrid, the next Spanish city in the consultancy's global ranking. The capital of the country has 36 hours lost for road users due to traffic jams, with a final speed in the last kilometre and a half of the journey of 25 km/h.

The good news is that Spanish cities are not included in the Top 100 cities with the worst traffic jams, although the trend towards traffic jams has increased by more than 10% in both cities mentioned. Next on the list is Palma de Mallorca, barely within the Top 300 worldwide with 28 hours lost per year for its drivers and an average speed of 27 km/h in the last few metres of the journey.

At a global level, New York in the United States leads the table, with 101 hours lost by road users. Next in the ranking of impact are Mexico City (96 hours) and London (99).

In the last five years, none of the aforementioned Spanish cities have managed to reduce the impact of traffic jams and delays on its citizens, with towns such as A Coruña seeing the impact of hours lost by drivers increase by more than 57% in the period between 2019 and 2024.