Metro de Madrid · Demand observatory

Metro Pulse

A living view of how Madrid moves: network demand, line performance, daily rhythms, station entries and long-run recovery, built from Metro de Madrid's official open data.

Official data
What “demand” meansRecorded passenger entries / validated journeys into the Metro network—not entries plus exits. Station figures are entries recorded at each station.
01 · Main demand explorer

Monthly demand

Switch between the full network, individual lines and station entries. Hover the chart for exact values.
02 · Daily pulse

How the network is moving now

03 · Rankings

Top stations by utilisation

04 · Seasonality

Year by month heatmap

05 · Indexed recovery

Monthly trend indexed to 2019

Each year is indexed to the same month in 2019, so the collapse and recovery can be compared at a glance.
06 · Geography

Where's the demand?

07 · Disruption stories

Closures visible in the demand data

A closer look at how major works and closures changed demand on the network.
08 · Derived insights

Weekday structure, recovery breadth and comparative rankings

A broader view of how demand shifts through the week, over Christmas and across stations recovering at different speeds.
Weekday pattern
Christmas pattern
Recovery vs 2019
Change vs previous year