M62

M62 Traffic on Wednesdays

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

M62 on Wednesdays: Wednesday 21 October 2026

How traffic on the M62 has moved hour by hour, compared with the same day a week earlier (Wednesday 14 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.

05:00 (5am)

Westbound · slowest hour against usual

average 57 mph across the road, against a usual 59 mph; the same hour last week 60 mph.

07:00 (7am)

Eastbound · slowest hour against usual

average 53 mph across the road, against a usual 56 mph; the same hour last week 58 mph.

Westbound · slowest stretch

J31–J32 8 mph, against a usual 55 mph.

16:00 (4pm)

Eastbound · slowest stretch

J19–J20 14 mph, against a usual 38 mph.

Across the day

Eastbound · stop-start

J12–J18 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 25 minutes, between 03:00 (3am) and 18:00 (6pm).

Eastbound · against last week

about the same as last Wednesday: average 60 mph over 24 hours, against 60 mph in the same hours.

Westbound · stop-start

J30–J31 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 65 minutes (1.08 hours), between 05:00 (5am) and 09:00 (9am).

Westbound · against last week

about the same as last Wednesday: average 58 mph over 24 hours, against 60 mph in the same hours.

Eastbound: average speed by hour

Westbound: average speed by hour

Wednesday 21 October 2026Wednesday 14 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 Wednesday 21 October 2026 and 24 of Wednesday 14 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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