Neither Lisbon nor Porto.
According to the latest edition of the TomTom Traffic Index report, based on data collected in more than 387 cities in 55 countries, on five continents, London is the most chaotic traffic city in the world, with the most congested arteries and time-consuming traffic jams.
he index compiles information collected from millions of anonymous navigation systems, smartphones and multimedia devices installed in cars, and ranks them by percentages of the level of congestion, represented by the average time that drivers in each city experienced during a trip.
London leads the rankings with the average travel time of 37 minutes and 20 seconds for a 10-kilometer journey in the city centre, and outside rush hours, drivers in London still take about 25 minutes to complete the same trip, meaning that traffic jams cost Londoners 12 minutes every 10 kilometers on average.
In terms of lost time in traffic, Portugal does not look so bad in photography. According to the TomTom Traffic Index 2023, Lisbon is the 139th city in the world with the most time-long traffic, registering an average travel time of 17 many and 30 seconds for every 10 kilometers; Porto occupies the 204th place in the table, with an average time of 15 minutes and 50 seconds to travel 10 km in the city center.
But there is a Portuguese city in the Top 100 of the most congested in the world: Funchal, the capital of the archipelago of Madeira, appears in the 52nd ranking, behind Mumbai, India, and Leipzig, Germany.
According to Tom’s accounts, drivers in Funchal spent 201 hours driving in 2023; 71 hours went on the to-start traffic jams.