Classified as red due to the many expected holiday departures, Saturday reached its traffic jams peak at around midday, with a total of 840 km of queues on French roads, according to Touring, a Belgian company providing road assistance.
Already very busy in the early hours of the morning, traffic was particularly congested in France, especially on the A7 linking Lyon to Orange in the Rhône valley (mainly between Marnas and Orange) and on the A9 between Orange and Spain (mainly between Nîmes and Narbonne).
In addition, a total of 70 km of traffic jams stretched along the A10 between Paris and Bordeaux. Traffic was also jammed on the A63 connecting Bordeaux to Spain outside Bordeaux, while road users had to wait more than two hours in the Mont-Blanc tunnel on the way to Italy. Progress was also slow on the A29 Péronne-Amiens-Le Havre and on the A13 between Rouen and Caen.
The roads were also packed with holidaymakers in Germany, with traffic slowing on the routes to Austria, Switzerland and Denmark. Long traffic jams formed on the A1 Hamburg-Lubeck-Putgarden, on the A3 between Würzburg and Nuremberg, on the A8 between Munich and Salzburg (where dozens of kilometres of traffic jams slowed traffic down) and on the A9 between Nuremberg and Munich.
Several stretches of the A7 are also affected: between Ulm and Austria, on the Hanover-Hamburg-Denmark segment, and on the Hanover-Hamburg-Denmark segment.
