What M60 Closures Are There Tonight?
If you are driving the M60 overnight — around the Manchester ring road, out to the airport, or joining from the M62, M62 or M67 — this page shows the closures reported as affecting the motorway tonight.
Listed below: everything reported as affecting the M60 between 6pm and 6am, newest first. See all M60 traffic news »
14 matching items - showing 1-10 of 14 total available news items
M60 Anticlockwise Jct 25 entry slip road hardshoulder closure
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 J25 anti-clockwise access
- Direction
- Anticlockwise
- Lanes closed
- Slip road closed
- Reason
- Construction work
- Schedule
- 05:00 (5am) Wed 24 June 2026 → 05:00 (5am) Sat 5 Dec 2026
Mobile hardshoulder closure Clockwise and Anticlockwise
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 anti-clockwise between J1 and J27
- Direction
- Anticlockwise
- Lanes closed
- Hard shoulder closed
- Reason
- Litter clearance
- Schedule
- 09:00 (9am) Tue 7 Apr 2026 → 23:59 (11:59pm) Thu 1 Apr 2027
M60 Clockwise Jct 24 exit slip road Lane 1 closure
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- connector at M60 J24/M67
- Direction
- Clockwise
- Lanes closed
- Slip road closed
- Reason
- Construction work
- Schedule
- 20:00 (8pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M60 Clockwise Jct 24 exit slip road Lane 1 closure
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- connector at M60 J24/M67
- Direction
- Clockwise
- Lanes closed
- Slip road closed
- Reason
- Construction work
- Schedule
- 20:00 (8pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M60 Anticlockwise jct 8 to 6 CD link carriageway closure
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 anti-clockwise between J8 and J6
- Direction
- Anticlockwise
- Lanes closed
- Carriageway closed
- Reason
- Tree and vegetation cutting work
- Schedule
- 21:00 (9pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M60 anticlockwise Jct 7 exit slip road closure
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 J7 anti-clockwise exit
- Direction
- Anticlockwise
- Lanes closed
- Carriageway closed
- Reason
- Tree and vegetation cutting work
- Schedule
- 21:00 (9pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M60 Anticlockwise lane 1 closure (MP 14/1 to 12/6)
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 anti-clockwise between J8 and J6
- Direction
- Anticlockwise
- Lanes closed
- Lane closures
- Reason
- Tree and vegetation cutting work
- Schedule
- 20:00 (8pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M60 Anticlockwise Jct 7 entry slip road closure
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 J7 anti-clockwise access
- Direction
- Anticlockwise
- Lanes closed
- Carriageway closed
- Reason
- Tree and vegetation cutting work
- Schedule
- 21:00 (9pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M60 Clockwise Jct 24 exit slip road Lane 1 closure
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 J24 clockwise exit
- Direction
- Clockwise
- Lanes closed
- Slip road closed
- Reason
- Construction work
- Schedule
- 20:00 (8pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M60 anticlockwise hard shoulder closure (MP 10/7 to 10/3)
19:09 (7:09pm)31 Oct 2026reported 3 min ago
- Location
- M60 anti-clockwise between J8 and J6
- Direction
- Anticlockwise
- Lanes closed
- Hard shoulder closed
- Reason
- Tree and vegetation cutting work
- Schedule
- 20:00 (8pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sun 1 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
This page shows closures or roadworks affecting tonight only. For everything on the M60 see all the latest M60 traffic news, the overhead signs and the speed limits in force now.
Updated 19:12 (7:12pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026
Powered by National Highways’ Transport Data Feeds.
What usually closes a motorway overnight
Most overnight closures are planned, and most are one of a handful of things:
- Resurfacing — new road surface, almost always done at night.
- Overnight closure — a section shut completely, with a signed diversion.
- Lane closures — one or more lanes shut, traffic still moving.
- Contraflow — traffic running on the opposite carriageway.
- Road marking and road maintenance — shorter works, often a single night.
- Abnormal load — an oversized load moved at night under escort, precisely because the road is quiet.
Those are the categories National Highways publishes in its traffic data, and the words are theirs, not ours.
If nothing is showing
An empty page is good news, not a broken one. It means there are no closures we are aware of affecting the M60 tonight. Because works are sometimes added late, cancelled without the record being updated, or never published at all, that is not a guarantee of a clear run — but it is the best picture available, and it is the same picture the official sources have. Everything currently reported on the M60, day and night together, is on our latest M60 traffic news page.
Why the M60 closes overnight so often
The M60 is a complete ring, so there is no quiet end to it. Every junction feeds another motorway or a main route into Manchester, and its busiest measured stretch — Junction 13 to Junction 12 — carries 201,196 vehicles a day, the fourth busiest count point in the whole of Great Britain.
On a road with no slack in it, overnight is the only window there is. An M60 closure also behaves differently from a closure on a straight motorway: because the ring is continuous, a diversion often means going the long way round rather than leaving the motorway network at all.