Malta Traffic Index — August 2026
A month of Malta's roads from our own continuous measurements — the island-wide average, the weekly rhythm, public holidays and the corridors that carried the heaviest delay.
Thu 27 08:00
851 samples
August 2026 in numbers
Across August 2026 the daytime Malta Traffic Index averaged 23.7 — moderate by the standards of our own monitoring. It is built from 851 island-wide readings taken on 31 of the month's 31 days, with every hour from 06:00 to 21:00 counted equally — so a month in which we happened to measure more often at quiet times does not look calmer than it was.
The single worst reading of the month was 88, on Thursday 27 August 2026 around 08:00.
When the roads were worst
Taken as a whole month, Tuesdays were the heaviest day of the week, averaging 25.6; Sundays were the calmest at 5.9. Public holidays are left out of this comparison so that a single day off does not make its weekday look quiet.
The morning peak landed at 11:00 (average 27) and the evening peak at 18:00 (average 34).
Weekdays averaged 23.3 against 8.7 at weekends.
The corridors that carried the delay
Paola — Ħal Luqa Rd was the slowest monitored corridor of the month, running on average 39.1% slower than free flow across 333 readings. The table lists the three corridors with the highest average delay.
About the data
7 readings from Ħal Luqa — Airport showed a travel time more than 5 times the free-flow time and are left out of the corridor figures as unknown — that monitoring point sits on a very short stretch of road, where a queue of a few minutes reads as an extreme delay. The month's highest index reading of 88 was itself driven by one of these readings; it is shown as it was recorded.
446 readings from Coast Rd — Salina taken before 19 September 2026 are excluded from the corridor table: until then that point was reading the same road segment as Ħamrun Bypass.
333 readings from Fgura — Triq Hompesch taken before 18 September 2026 are excluded from the corridor table: until then that point was reading the same road segment as Paola — Ħal Luqa Rd.
The headline figure is the daytime index (06:00–21:00, each hour weighted equally). The plain average of every reading in the month, night-time included, was 19; it is not used for month-to-month comparison because the share of overnight readings has changed as our sampling schedule was tuned.