M56

M56 Traffic on Mondays

How the M56 behaves on a typical Monday, from our own record of National Highways’ live speeds. Other days: Tuesdays · Wednesdays · Thursdays · Fridays · Saturdays · Sundays.

M56 on Mondays: Monday 19 October 2026

How traffic on the M56 has moved hour by hour, compared with the same day a week earlier (Monday 12 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 M56 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.

08:00 (8am)

Westbound · slowest hour against usual

average 56 mph across the road, against a usual 62 mph; the same hour last week 45 mph.

Westbound · slowest stretch

J1–J2 27 mph, against a usual 48 mph.

16:00 (4pm)

Eastbound · slowest stretch

J2–J3 7 mph, against a usual 52 mph.

18:00 (6pm)

Eastbound · slowest hour against usual

average 45 mph across the road, against a usual 62 mph; the same hour last week 67 mph.

Across the day

Westbound · against last week

about the same as last Monday: average 62 mph over 22 hours, against 62 mph in the same hours.

Eastbound · stop-start

J5–J6 traffic below 15 mph somewhere on this stretch for about 65 minutes (1.08 hours), between 14:00 (2pm) and 19:00 (7pm).

Eastbound · against last week

slower than last Monday: average 58 mph over 21 hours, against 62 mph in the same hours.

Westbound: average speed by hour

Eastbound: average speed by hour

Monday 19 October 2026Monday 12 October 2026usual speed (National Highways)

How we worked this out. We regularly take National Highways’ live speed data for each stretch of the M56 and keep the average for each hour. These figures cover 24 hours of Monday 19 October 2026 and 22 of Monday 12 October 2026 (hours with no readings are left out). 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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