Traffic Index

Football world championship 2026

With major tournaments come major city mobility challenges. Dive into live and historical data for play-by-play traffic patterns and insights as matches take place across 16 stadiums in Canada, the USA and Mexico, and see which cities best tackle congestion and which take drivers into extra time.

MetLife Stadium, New York/New Jersey

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Live traffic intelligence

Uncovering valuable mobility insights is as simple as asking the right question. Explore the interactive tool below for a snapshot of how AI helps you analyze live conditions, pinpoint optimal and incident-prone routes — plus more — across different sectors and use cases.

MetLife Stadium, NJ

Predictions for the final

The 2026 tournament final will take place at the MetLife Stadium, NJ, on July 19. This stadium sold out for the football club championship final in July, 2025. And just like the upcoming final, this match took place at 3pm EDT on Sunday. Comparing road conditions during the 2025 final with typical traffic reveals potential chokepoints, travel times and other insights into how game day might affect city traffic.

Colorful map showing roads, rivers, and landmarks with blue and orange icons indicating points of interest.
Colorful map showing roads, rivers, and landmarks with blue and orange icons indicating points of interest.

Are bridges bad bottlenecks?

Traffic and mobility intelligence provides authorities with critical insights. On a typical day, congestion sits at 9.1% at 2pm, and it would take drivers an average of 2 minutes and 36 seconds to drive 3 km. Around 2pm on gameday last year, congestion soared to 195.6%, nearly tripling this travel time to 7 minutes and 47 seconds.

With all of New York to the east, the NJ-3 bridge westbound over the Hackensack River represents a significant bottleneck. Monitoring this traffic corridor will be crucial to ensure that critical safety services, such as emergency responders, can cross without significant delay.

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Managing mobility at mega events: Lessons from major football tournaments and more

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Football world championship 2026 white paper

Urban mobility becomes highly disrupted during major events like the football world championship, and TomTom uses long-term traffic data to analyse and provide insights into these evolving congestion patterns.

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