Traffic will be “extremely difficult” in the direction of vacation departures, warns Bison Futé


Saturday, “The day is classified black at the national level” in the direction of departures, specifies in particular the public organization.

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Cars and trucks form a traffic jam on the three lanes of the A7 motorway in the North-South direction, near Valence, France, July 5, 2025. (Nicolas Guyonnet / Hans Lucas / AFP)

Cars and trucks form a traffic jam on the three lanes of the A7 motorway in the North-South direction, near Valence, France, on July 5, 2025. (Nicolas Guyonnet / Hans Lucas / AFP)

If the summer holidays are over for “Julyists”it’s the start for the “AOUTIENS”. The days from Friday August 1 to Monday 4 thus promise many movements on the roads, analyzes Smart bison who advises “shift” trips these days.

Friday, the public organization Released 588km of traffic jams at noon, throughout France. The day is thus classified red in the direction of departures for the northwest quarter. This includes Hauts-de-France, Normandy, Brittany, Pays de la Loire and Center-Val de Loire. A traffic “Very difficult” is also expected on the side of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region. In the rest of France, a smart bison hoist the orange flag. Same color concerning returns in the south-eastern quarter.

SATURDAY, “The day is classified black at the national level” in the direction of departures, specifies the public organization, adding that the “Movements should be particularly difficult on the main axes of France” Throughout the day. In Île-de-France, traffic will remain dense until the night. A situation that may even last “Until the middle of the morning”. Regarding returns, departures around the coast Mediterranean will be numerous, with A9, A7 and A75 motorways “Very asked”.

Even if the roads will free themselves on Sunday, in the direction of departures, “Traffic conditions should be still difficult” Particularly on the A10 motorway between Bordeaux and Poitiers, the A7 located between Lyon and Marseille and the A9 between Orange and Narbonne, Bison Futé. The A75 between Clermont-Ferrand and Bézier will also be strongly borrowed from the end of the morning until the end of the afternoon.

Finally, Monday, the day will also be placed in red for departures in the southeast quarter. The rest of the country will be green. In that of the returns, Bison Futé classifies the South East, that is to say the Mediterranean periphery, the Southern Alps, the Vaucluse and the Lozère as well as in the Grand Est and in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, in Orange.



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