M60 Motorway

The M60 Motorway

The M60 is Manchester's orbital motorway, the northern counterpart of London's M25. Our dedicated M60 website covers the whole ring, from Stockport round to Salford and Trafford.

Our M60 Website

Everything you need for the M60 is on m60traffic.co.uk, updated every five minutes, 24 hours a day, from official National Highways data. It includes:

• the latest M60 traffic news
• accidents and incidents
• roadworks
• what the overhead signs are saying
• the variable speed limits in force now
• separate clockwise and anticlockwise pages
• closures tonight
• M60 junction maps

It is one of a family of websites from UK Traffic News, each one given over to a single road so that the news you see is about the road you are actually driving.

Information About the M60 Motorway

The M60 motorway is 35 miles (56 km) is a circular ring road around Greater Manchester in the North West of England.

The M60 is one of Britain's busiest motorways.

Stockport, Junctions 1 and 27, is on the east side of the ring road motorway, Junctions 3/4 and 5 link to the M56 which heads south west toward North Wales, Junction 12 joins the M62 heading west to Liverpool, Junction 14/15 link to the M61 heading north west to the M6 past Chorley, Junction 18 joins the M66 heading north towards the M56.

Primary destinations are Manchester, Trafford, Salford, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Tameside.

The M60 was formed between 1960 and 2000 and parts of the M60 were originally part of the M62, M63 and M66.

The first UK road to be built to motorway standard was the Preston Bypass which later became part of the M6.

The M60 in numbers

Traffic on the M60 as counted by the Department for Transport.

about 125,000

vehicles a day

on an average stretch of the M60. The busiest stretch carries about 201,000 a day.

1 in 17

vehicles is a lorry

and about 1 in 6 is a van, so a large share of M60 traffic is people at work.

Source: Department for Transport road traffic statistics, 2025. Averages across the whole road; rounded.

See also: M60 traffic reports · all the motorways we cover.