The Rodalies de Catalunya network closed 2025 as the one that accumulated the most delays of the entire national Renfe Cercanías network, with only 50% punctuality and delays that affected half of the trains that circulated through Barcelona, Girona, and Tarragona.
Rodalies registers the worst punctuality in the country
During the past year, Rodalies' average punctuality stood at 50%, the lowest figure among all Cercanías networks in Spain. The worst month was July, when the degree of on-time performance fell to 41.7%. In the second, third, and fourth quarters, the percentage of trains that arrived at their destination on time remained below 50%.
In practice, this means that half of the Rodalies convoys circulated with delays exceeding three minutes. Users of the Catalan network suffered on average more than one and a half minutes of delay on each journey, although not all trips registered incidents. When there were delays, the average delay was close to 11 minutes, although in the most serious cases the wait amounted to 20.5 minutes.
Delays and causes in the Catalan network
Between 37% and 53% of delays in Rodalies were directly attributed to Renfe, depending on the month. The rest of the incidents, between 47% and 71%, were due to external causes such as infrastructure problems, traffic management, fires or meteorological phenomena.
In no case were delays exceeding one hour registered on the Catalan network. 6.3% of Commuter trains throughout Spain suffered delays of more than five minutes and 2% accumulated delays exceeding 15 minutes.
More than 110 million travelers in Rodalies
Rodalies de Catalunya was the second commuter rail network with the most users in 2025, only behind Madrid. More than 110 million travelers used the Catalan trains, with a daily average of over 302,000 people and 235,483 annual circulations.
Nationally, Renfe's Commuter trains transported 453.87 million passengers in 1.26 million circulations. The public service mobilized an average of 1.2 million people per day and carried out 3,471 daily rail journeys.
Comparison with other Commuter networks
The Madrid network was the most used, with 245 million users and a punctuality of 68.5%. After Rodalies, the worst punctuality figures were recorded in Seville, Murcia and Cantabria, with percentages between 58.3% and 63.6%. On the contrary, Zaragoza, Cádiz, Málaga and Bilbao exceeded the national average, with punctuality rates between 87.8% and 94.4%.
The highest average delays after Rodalies occurred in Sevilla, Madrid, Cantabria and Málaga, with waiting times that ranged between 11.2 and 13.5 minutes.
Renfe provided 98.2% of the scheduled services in the main urban networks, including Catalonia, although the general punctuality of Cercanías fell throughout the year from 73% in the first quarter to 68.5% in the last three months.