Dodger Stadium Traffic: Game Days vs Normal Days

After weeknight Dodgers games, I-110 South at Stadium Way runs about 14 mph slower than on a normal weeknight around 10 pm (51 mph instead of 66 mph; 700 games from 2010 to 2026).

Next games

No home games are scheduled right now (off-season).

Weekday afternoon games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Dodger Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 51 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 12:10 pm (30 of 51), 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 weekday afternoon: regular drivers seem to stay away on game days, and fans arrive over a couple of hours, much of it by surface streets. Leaving after the game, I-110 South at Stadium Way is the slowest: about 25 mph slower than normal around 3 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.

Weeknight games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Dodger Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 700 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 7:10 pm (632 of 700), 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 4 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. Leaving after the game, I-110 South at Stadium Way is the slowest: about 14 mph slower than normal around 10 pm.

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 afternoon games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Dodger Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 174 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 1:10 pm (161 of 174), 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 weekend afternoon: regular drivers seem to stay away on game days, and fans arrive over a couple of hours, much of it by surface streets. Leaving after the game, I-110 South at Stadium Way is the slowest: about 28 mph slower than normal around 4 pm.

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.

Weekend evening games, hour by hour

Average speed on the freeways where Dodger Stadium's traffic gets on and off, 200 games from 2010 to 2026, measured readings only. Most start at 6:10 pm (89 of 200), 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 4 mph faster than on a normal weekend evening: regular drivers seem to stay away on game days, and fans arrive over a couple of hours, much of it by surface streets. Leaving after the game, I-110 South at Stadium Way is the slowest: about 33 mph slower than normal around 9 pm.

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.

How this is measured

Road sensors report how fast traffic is moving and how many cars pass. We use the ones where Dodger Stadium's traffic gets on and off the freeways (US-101 at Glendale Blvd, I-5 and I-110 at Stadium Way, US-101 at Union Station) 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.