Angel Stadium Traffic: Game Days vs Normal Days

On weeknight Angels games, the freeways where Angel Stadium's traffic gets on and off average 57 mph in the hour before the start, compared with 55 mph at that time on a normal weeknight (741 games from 2010 to 2026).

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Weeknight games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Angel Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 741 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 7:05 pm (314 of 741), so the times below are for that start; each game is compared at its own start time.

In the hour before the start, these freeways are about 2 mph faster than on a normal weeknight: regular drivers seem to stay away on game days, and fans arrive over a couple of hours, much of it by surface streets.

Freeway by freeway

Difference from a normal weeknight, in mph.

Extra cars on the ramps

Cars per hour at the busiest time, game days vs normal days.

Weekend evening games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Angel Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 194 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 6:05 pm (55 of 194), so the times below are for that start; each game is compared at its own start time.

Game days barely change freeway speeds here; the surface streets and parking lots are where the wait is.

Freeway by freeway

Difference from a normal weekend evening, in mph.

Extra cars on the ramps

Cars per hour at the busiest time, game days vs normal days.

Weekend afternoon games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Angel Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 191 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 1:07 pm (81 of 191), so the times below are for that start; each game is compared at its own start time.

Game days barely change freeway speeds here; the surface streets and parking lots are where the wait is.

Freeway by freeway

Difference from a normal weekend afternoon, in mph.

Extra cars on the ramps

Cars per hour at the busiest time, game days vs normal days.

Weekday afternoon games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Angel Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 59 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 1:07 pm (32 of 59), so the times below are for that start; each game is compared at its own start time.

Leaving after the game, SR-57 North at Katella Ave is the slowest: about 11 mph slower than normal around 5 pm.

Freeway by freeway

Difference from a normal weekday afternoon, in mph.

Extra cars on the ramps

Cars per hour at the busiest time, game days vs normal days.

How this is measured

Road sensors report how fast traffic is moving and how many cars pass. We use the ones where Angel Stadium's traffic gets on and off the freeways (SR-57 at Katella Ave, I-5 at Gene Autry Way) and the ramps there: averaging every freeway for miles around would hide a jam at the stadium exit under traffic that never goes near it. For each past home game we compare them, hour by hour, with the same weekday one to four weeks before and after when there was no game, leaving out holidays. Game times come from the teams' published schedules. Road sensors: Caltrans PeMS. Concerts and other events aren't included yet.

Only readings a working detector actually measured are used. Many Caltrans detectors are broken (how the sensors have declined), and PeMS fills them in with estimates that can't know a game is on, so this page leans on the years when more of them worked. Each sensor is compared only with itself, and a game is left out when too few were measured.

More: traffic at other stadiums and arenas.