These Dutch cities are the most traffic jams

If you want to continue driving, it is better to drive around Haarlem with a curve. This is evident from TomTom’s figures for the past year. Users of TomTom’s navigation services took the longest to cover 10 km in Haarlem. That took an average of 14 minutes there. If you go on the road in Haarlem every working day during rush hour, you can spend an average of 118 hours in traffic over a year, according to TomTom. In second place is Nijmegen, which is only slightly better. There, covering 10 km takes an average of 13.5 minutes and you also spend 118 hours in traffic jams on an annual basis. Rotterdam and Amsterdam are also not doing well, with 116 and 110 hours of traffic jams per year respectively. Groningen follows in fifth place. There you drive 12:40 over 10 km and you are stuck in traffic jams for 104 hours on an annual basis.

Incidentally, the image looks slightly different when we look at a larger area. The above figures apply to a radius of 5 km around the heart of the city, but seen across the entire urban area, some other cities are emerging. Haarlem is still at the top when it comes to traffic jams (111 hours per year), but is then closely followed by The Hague (107 hours), Nijmegen (107 hours), Groningen (102 hours) and Rotterdam (97 hours). . It is striking that Amsterdam (86 hours) does better in that case than Arnhem (96 hours) and Tilburg (88 hours).