M62

M62 Traffic on Saturdays

How the M62 behaves on a typical Saturday, from our own record of National Highways’ live speeds. Other days: Mondays · Tuesdays · Wednesdays · Thursdays · Fridays · Sundays.

M62 on Saturdays: Saturday 17 October 2026

How traffic on the M62 has moved hour by hour, compared with the same day a week earlier (Saturday 10 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 M62 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.

00:00 (midnight)

Westbound · slowest stretch

J31–J32 18 mph, against a usual 61 mph.

05:00 (5am)

Eastbound · slowest hour against usual

average 57 mph across the road, against a usual 60 mph.

Westbound · slowest hour against usual

average 61 mph across the road, against a usual 60 mph.

18:00 (6pm)

Eastbound · slowest stretch

J21–J22 24 mph, against a usual 63 mph.

Across the day

Eastbound · stop-start

J21–J22 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 25 minutes, between 18:00 (6pm) and 19:00 (7pm).

Westbound · stop-start

J31–J32 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 35 minutes, between 00:00 (midnight) and 02:00 (2am).

Eastbound: average speed by hour

Westbound: average speed by hour

Saturday 17 October 2026usual speed (National Highways)

How we worked this out. We regularly take National Highways’ live speed data for each stretch of the M62 and keep the average for each hour. These figures cover 24 hours of Saturday 17 October 2026 (we have no readings for Saturday 10 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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