Traffic is eating up more than eight full days a year for drivers in Lima.

According to the 2025 TomTom Traffic Index, drivers in Lima, Peru lost an estimated 195 hours during rush-hour traffic over the course of the year — the highest total among the cities measured in the viral ranking. That works out to 8 days and 3 hours sitting in congestion.

Dublin came close at 191 hours, followed by Mexico City at 184 hours. Other Latin American cities also appear prominently, including Barranquilla at 162 hours, Arequipa at 154, Bogotá and Medellín at 153, Cali at 138, Curitiba at 135 and São Paulo and Cartagena at 132 hours.

Latin America’s presence is hard to miss. Mexico City actually had the highest overall congestion level in TomTom’s official 2025 global ranking at 75.9%, while Lima recorded 69.3%. TomTom measures congestion using anonymized GPS and real-world driving data collected across trillions of kilometres of travel.

For Lima commuters, the numbers are especially brutal. During the evening rush, travelling just 10 kilometres took an average of more than 51 minutes, with an average speed of only 11.7 km/h. Lima drivers also lost about 15 hours more to rush-hour traffic than they did in 2024.

One important distinction: the graphic circulating online ranks cities by hours lost during rush hour, rather than TomTom’s official overall congestion ranking. By hours lost, Lima is No. 1; by TomTom’s congestion percentage, Mexico City ranks No. 1.

Either way, the 2025 numbers underline a familiar reality across Latin America’s biggest cities: sometimes the longest part of the trip isn’t the distance — it’s the traffic.