How rich are you in the one thing money can't buy — time?
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Time Wealth Score rewards leisure, sleep & family time, and penalises long commutes and long work hours. Annual commute hours = one-way min × 2 × 250 days ÷ 60 Indian urban-male averages (Time Use Survey 2019): Commute 36 min · Work 7.2h · Sleep 7.1h · Leisure 4.8h Bangalore has India's worst commute (~54 min one way).
Source: MoSPI Time Use Survey 2019 (India's first national time use survey); TomTom Traffic Index 2024 for city commute data.
Urban Indian men commute about 36 minutes one way on average. In metros this rises to 45+ minutes, and Bangalore tops the list at around 54 minutes one way.
Bangalore, at roughly 54 minutes one way, followed by Mumbai (52 min) and Delhi (48 min).
Urban men get about 4.8 hours and urban women about 3.5 hours of leisure per day (Time Use Survey 2019).
Having too little discretionary time after work, commute, sleep and unpaid duties. Long commutes and long work hours are the biggest drivers in urban India.