Overview

• Bison Futé classified departures today at black across France and flagged return journeys as red around the Mediterranean and orange elsewhere.
• By mid-morning, official counts recorded over 500 km of congestion, with the A7, A10 and A9 logging the longest queues.
• The A7 trip from Lyon to Orange surged to 4 h 20 min from a normal 1 h 35 min, while travel on the A9 between Orange and Narbonne rose to 2 h 45 min versus 1 h 40 min.
• Holiday corridors toward the Atlantic (A10, A63, A11), the Mediterranean (A7, A9, A61) and through the Massif Central (A75, A20) remain worst affected.
• Motorists are encouraged to avoid peak windows between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. and consider evening departures to bypass the heaviest jams.