Forecast traffic weekend Pentecost on Friday, May 22, Saturday, May 23, Sunday, May 24, Monday, May 25, 2026: our traffic colors
->Forecast road traffic Friday, May 22 : afternoon and end of the day RED from Paris, RED from the major cities Lyon, Rennes, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille / Aix en Provence, Nice, Grenoble, Lille. On the main roads, the very dense traffic on a Luxembourg axis, but also from Mulhouse to Lyon and then to Marseille. The A36, the A31, then the A6 between Beaune and Lyon will see a very dense traffic. The A7 between Lyon and the city of Orange will be saturated. Traffic will also be heavy on A61 between Toulouse and Narbonne, A63 between Bordeaux and Arcachon, A10 between Paris and Orleans, A11 between Paris and Le Mans, A13 between Paris and Caen.
This Friday will see difficulties around the big cities, the ring roads of Caen, Rennes, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse. On Marseille, the A7, A50 and A51 motorways at the exits of the city will be very busy, the same in Nice, the A8 motorways between Monaco and Cannes will see heavy traffic. In the Rhône Alpes, the A6 and A7 motorways will be dense with a traffic jam in each direction at the Fourvière tunnel. To the east, the bypass of Strabourg will see traffic jams and the A31 motorway between Luxembourg and Metz will be very busy. On Paris, avoid borrowing the otherwise limited to 50km/h and the A86 very busy. If you are travelling from the A1 to the A10 or versa, take the A104 from the east of the capital. Many traffic jams are expected at the exits of the capital especially in the direction of the Grand Ouest on the N118 dés Boulogne Billancourt (in the great climb that leads to the plateau of Saclay), on A10 dice A6B around Fresnes (A86 interchange) and up to the toll of Saint Arnoult in Yvelines, on A6 dice A6A and up to Savigny sur Orge. On A13, A1, A4, A15, the traffic jams will be identical to those of a Friday night
On the main roads, traffic will be very dense from the afternoon until the end of the evening on A7 between Lyon and the city of Orange (large cap in Valencia), on A61 between Toulouse and Narbonne, on A63 between Bordeaux and Arcachon, on A10 between Paris and Orleans, A11 between Paris and Le Mans, on A13 between Paris and Caen. The Germans will be very numerous to go to France with traffic jams to all the tolls of A36 between Mulhouse and Dijon. The Swiss who want to go to the Mediterranean will encounter a large traffic jam on the N7 in Valencia before being able to insert themselves on the A7
->Forecast road traffic Saturday, May 23 : morning RED from Paris, morning and first part of the afternoon ORANGE on the main roads particularly on A7 between Lyon and the city of Orange, but also on A75 between Clermont Ferrand and Béziers, on A61 between Toulouse and Narbonne, on the nationals of Brittany, in particular the N165 which goes back from Nantes to Quimper, but also on A11 and A81 between Paris and Rennes, and A13 In regions, traffic is expected to decline sharply in the middle of the afternoon. The peak is expected around noon
On Paris, traffic will be very dense from 9am, especially on the N10 between Saint Quentin en Yvelines and Rambouillet, on the N118 between Velisy and the A10, on A10 between A6B and the toll of Saint Arnoult en Yvelines. On A13 and A6 the traffic will be very heavy, but the slowdowns will be bearable. On A1 and A4, traffic will be fluid. Around Paris, traffic is expected to decline sharply in the early afternoon. The peak is expected around 11am
->Forecast traffic traffic Sunday, May 24 : calm traffic, to be monitored however and in case of good weather, access to beaches and amusement parks. The major shopping centres will be very busy. In the Ile de France region, road traffic will be heavy at midday. At the end of the afternoon, disturbances will be formed on all the motorways approaching Paris (outings by the day, returns from family outings and shopping)
->Forecasts traffic Monday, May 25 : afternoon and ORANGE evening in Ile de France for the returns of this weekend of the Ascension, after noon and evening RED for the returns of the Mediterranean, both on A61 to Toulouse, as on A75 to Clermont Ferrand, or on A7 to Lyon (plugs expected particularly difficult from Orange and to Valencia). The returns of Brittany will be difficult with an afternoon ORANGE on A81 and A11 between Rennes and Paris, on the N165 between Lorient and Nantes, on the N12 between Saint Brieuc and Rennes. On A13, traffic will evolve in accordion between Caen and Rouen, then in the late afternoon other traffic jams will form in the approach of Mantes la Jolie (be careful this highway no longer has a toll, but it is necessary to pay a payment on the site of Sanef)
On Paris, the returns will be very dense from noon with long slowdowns on A10 between the toll of Saint Arnoult and Paris, on the N118 dice A10 and up to Vélisy, on the N10 with the traditional traffic jam of Rambouillet, on A6 with slowdowns in the forest of Fontainebleau (accordion circulation). On A13, A14, A4, A1 and A15, the slowdowns will be at the level of a Sunday evening
Our advice: it is advisable to avoid Friday from noon until the evening, the axes that bypass the capital (devices, A86 and A104) and the highways at the exits of Paris. Saturday morning, leave either very early (6am) or after lunch. Sunday the traffic will be dense in the Paris region during the day and in the evening with returns causing slowdowns. Monday, it is better to arrive in large cities before 3pm or after 10pm. The returns of Brittany and the Mediterranean via A7 will be very complicated (after each weekend of the Ascension is similar, many of you have already experienced these important slowdowns
To know your traffic conditions in real time, please consult the map Google Maps traffic, an ORANGE route, indicates a slow traffic, a red route a heavy slow traffic.