Does LA have worst traffic in US?

Los Angeles ranked as No. 6 in the U.S. with drivers losing the most hours in traffic. Chicago took the top spot, with drivers there losing 155 hours, followed by Boston (134 hours), New York (117 hours), Philadelphia (114 hours), and Miami (105).



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1 U.S. city with the worst traffic: Chicago, IL. Chicago ranked as the U.S. city with the highest traffic delays in 2022.

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You may think Los Angeles traffic is bad, but when it comes to the 2021 edition of the TomTom Traffic Index report, it doesn't even rank in the top 50. In fact, of all the cities on Earth, only one American metropolis even makes such a list.

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Surprisingly or not, Chicago, IL was found to have the second worst traffic in the world, right behind London, UK (No. 1); and the absolute worst in all of North America, surpassing infamously congested cities like New York City, NY (No. 4) and Los Angeles, CA (No. 9).

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The New York City area officially has the worst traffic in the country, according to the latest survey for Texas A&M's Transportation Institute. The survey says a New York-Newark driver spent an average 56 hours stuck in traffic last year. Compare that to the 46 hours on average per driver for the year in Los Angeles.

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1 U.S. city with the worst traffic: Chicago, IL. Chicago ranked as the U.S. city with the highest traffic delays in 2022. On a global scale, the Illinois city ranked No. 2, after London in the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles has world's worst traffic; Nashville, Atlanta hold their own. DETROIT (AP) -- When it comes to getting stuck in traffic on the way to and from work, Los Angeles leads the world. Drivers in the car-crazy California metropolis spent 104 hours each driving in congestion during peak travel periods last year.

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Key takeaways. The worst cities for driving are New York City, Chicago, Miami, Austin, and Los Angeles. Chicago drivers lost an average of 104 hours to traffic congestion during peak rush hour in 2021.

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Top 5 Best Cities for Traffic in California
  • Vallejo. ...
  • Lancaster. ...
  • Rohnert Park. ...
  • Sacramento. ...
  • Concord. ...
  • San Diego. ...
  • Los Angeles. You may be surprised to see Los Angeles not ranking number one, but that doesn't make traffic here bearable. ...
  • San Francisco. And finally, San Francisco wins the prize of worst traffic in California.


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On average, people in the City of Angels spend 153 hours per year on the road, 81 of those due to jams and congestion. Compare that with San Diego, where residents spend 80 hours per year driving, and 21 hours in congestion.

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Los Angeles (95 hours)* San Francisco (97 hours) Washington, D.C. (83 hours) Houston (74 hours)

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The southbound I-5 (Interstate 5) between Euclid Avenue to Interstate-605 is the most gridlocked road in the United States. Someone using this stretch of road for a daily work commute would lose, on average, 89 hours of their life every year.

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Houston's traffic is the worst in Texas, and some spots, such as I-45 near downtown and I-610 near the Galleria and the 59 interchange, wouldn't be out of place in L.A. in the sense that traffic is both predictably and unpredictably awful.

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