M6 Traffic on Sundays

How traffic on the M6 moved, hour by hour, on the most recent Sunday. 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 Sunday a week earlier and against the speed National Highways normally expects. On a Sunday the page fills in as the day goes on.

M6 on Sundays: Sunday 18 October 2026

How traffic on the M6 has moved hour by hour, compared with the same day a week earlier (Sunday 11 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.

06:00 (6am)

Southbound · slowest hour against usual

average 59 mph across the road, against a usual 60 mph; the same hour last week 61 mph.

12:00 (midday)

Northbound · slowest hour against usual

average 62 mph across the road, against a usual 64 mph; the same hour last week 57 mph.

13:00 (1pm)

Northbound · slowest stretch

J31–J31A 8 mph, against a usual 60 mph.

23:00 (11pm)

Southbound · slowest stretch

J24–J25 19 mph, against a usual 51 mph.

Across the day

Northbound · stop-start

J25–J26 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 125 minutes (2.08 hours), between 00:00 (midnight) and 05:00 (5am).

Northbound · against last week

quicker than last Sunday: average 62 mph over 24 hours, against 59 mph in the same hours.

Southbound · stop-start

J10–J10A traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 180 minutes (3 hours), between 05:00 (5am) and 00:00 (midnight).

Southbound · against last week

quicker than last Sunday: average 62 mph over 24 hours, against 59 mph in the same hours.

Northbound: average speed by hour

Southbound: average speed by hour

Sunday 18 October 2026Sunday 11 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 Sunday 18 October 2026 and 24 of Sunday 11 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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