Does Budapest have one of the worst traffic jams in the world?

When waiting in traffic in your car or on the bus, have you ever wondered whether traffic jams could be worse? That depends on where you live. It might not actually be as bad in your city as you would think at first.

FleetLogging was curious which modern city has the worst traffic jams in the world, more precisely, how big the difference in traffic is during peak hours and off-peak periods. To do this, they first selected the 141 busiest cities in the world and then used the TravelTime API to calculate how far from the city centre you could go in an hour during peak and off-peak periods.

Travelo found the list of FleetLogging, and according to their calculations, the first place, which is actually the worst placement in this statistic, goes to Marseille.

Marseille is the second-largest city in France, and it had the largest difference in the world in terms of the number of kilometres travelled from the city centre during peak and off-peak periods. Within the United States, the biggest discrepancy was in Boise, Idaho.

At peak times, however, it is the most difficult to get out of London: you can only cover about 20 kilometres in an hour during peak traffic. Singapore, on the other hand, is the worst in terms of off-peak traffic: you could only travel about 27 kilometres in an hour in normal traffic.