M6 Traffic on Mondays

How traffic on the M6 moved, hour by hour, on the most recent Monday. The cards pick out the slowest hour, the slowest stretch and any stop-start traffic in each direction; the charts show every hour against the same Monday a week earlier and against the speed National Highways normally expects. On a Monday the page fills in as the day goes on.

M6 on Mondays: Monday 19 October 2026

How traffic on the M6 has moved hour by hour, compared with the same day a week earlier (Monday 12 October 2026) and with National Highways’ usual speed for each hour. Updated every five minutes.

Speeds are colour-coded the same way as our live M6 speed flow map: 50 mph and over, 30 mph to 49 mph, under 30 mph. The colour shows the speed actually achieved; the usual speed is shown in bold beside it.

07:00 (7am)

Southbound · slowest hour against usual

average 53 mph across the road, against a usual 60 mph; the same hour last week 38 mph.

Southbound · slowest stretch

J25–J26 4 mph, against a usual 51 mph.

08:00 (8am)

Northbound · slowest stretch

J22–J23 4 mph, against a usual 50 mph.

12:00 (midday)

Northbound · slowest hour against usual

average 57 mph across the road, against a usual 62 mph; the same hour last week 58 mph.

Across the day

Northbound · stop-start

J22–J23 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 210 minutes (3.5 hours), between 00:00 (midnight) and 23:00 (11pm).

Northbound · against last week

about the same as last Monday: average 58 mph over 24 hours, against 58 mph in the same hours.

Southbound · stop-start

J10–J10A traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 295 minutes (4.92 hours), between 04:00 (4am) and 16:00 (4pm).

Southbound · against last week

quicker than last Monday: average 59 mph over 24 hours, against 56 mph in the same hours.

Northbound: average speed by hour

Southbound: average speed by hour

Monday 19 October 2026Monday 12 October 2026usual speed (National Highways)

How we worked this out. We regularly take National Highways’ live speed data for each stretch of the M6 and keep the average for each hour. These figures cover 24 hours of Monday 19 October 2026 and 24 of Monday 12 October 2026. Hours are UK time. A speed shown for the whole road is the average across its stretches, so a short queue may not move it much: the cards point to the slowest stretches.

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