M60

M60 Traffic on Fridays

How the M60 behaves on a typical Friday, from our own record of National Highways’ live speeds. Other days: Mondays · Tuesdays · Wednesdays · Thursdays · Saturdays · Sundays.

M60 on Fridays: Friday 16 October 2026

How traffic on the M60 has moved hour by hour, compared with the same day a week earlier (Friday 9 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 M60 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)

Clockwise · slowest hour against usual

average 50 mph across the road, against a usual 55 mph.

Anticlockwise · slowest hour against usual

average 50 mph across the road, against a usual 56 mph.

17:00 (5pm)

Clockwise · slowest stretch

J26–J27 7 mph, against a usual 43 mph.

22:00 (10pm)

Anticlockwise · slowest stretch

J1–J2 19 mph, against a usual 63 mph.

Across the day

Clockwise · stop-start

J9–J10 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 80 minutes (1.33 hours), between 14:00 (2pm) and 18:00 (6pm).

Anticlockwise · stop-start

J14–J15 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 55 minutes, between 06:00 (6am) and 18:00 (6pm).

Clockwise: average speed by hour

Anticlockwise: average speed by hour

Friday 16 October 2026usual speed (National Highways)

How we worked this out. We regularly take National Highways’ live speed data for each stretch of the M60 and keep the average for each hour. These figures cover 24 hours of Friday 16 October 2026 (we have no readings for Friday 9 October 2026, so there is no week-earlier line yet). 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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