What M5 Closures Are There Tonight?
If you are driving the M5 overnight — heading down to the West Country, running freight to Avonmouth, or making an early start to miss the holiday traffic — this page shows the closures reported as affecting the motorway tonight.
Listed below: everything reported as affecting the M5 between 6pm and 6am, newest first. See all M5 traffic news »
7 matching items - showing 1-7 of 7 total available news items
M4 westbound Jct 20 exit slip road to M5 northbound Jct 15 - carriageway closed
23:36 (11:36pm)1 Nov 2026reported 15 min ago
- Location
- link road from M4 westbound J20 to M5 J15 northbound
- Direction
- Northbound
- Lanes closed
- Carriageway closed
- Reason
- Maintenance work
- Schedule
- 21:41 (9:41pm) Sun 11 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sat 5 Dec 2026
M5 northbound Jct 10 to 9 - hardshoulder closure (78/2 to 76/6)
23:36 (11:36pm)1 Nov 2026reported 15 min ago
- Location
- M5 northbound between J10 and J9
- Direction
- Northbound
- Lanes closed
- Hard shoulder closed
- Reason
- Other
- Schedule
- 07:52 (7:52am) Mon 5 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sat 19 Dec 2026
M5 northbound Jct 22 to Jct 21 narrow lanes (166/3 to 161/9)
23:36 (11:36pm)1 Nov 2026reported 15 min ago
- Location
- M5 northbound between J21 and J20
- Direction
- Northbound
- Lanes closed
- Restriction · Width restriction
- Reason
- Road improvement or upgrading
- Schedule
- 05:44 (5:44am) Sat 19 Sept 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sat 3 Nov 2029
M5 northbound Jct 10 to 9 - hardshoulder closure (78/2 to 77/3)
23:36 (11:36pm)1 Nov 2026reported 15 min ago
- Location
- M5 northbound between J10 and J9
- Direction
- Northbound
- Lanes closed
- Hard shoulder closed
- Reason
- Other
- Schedule
- 06:00 (6am) Mon 5 Oct 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sat 19 Dec 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M5 northbound Jct 22 to Jct 21 narrow lanes (166/3 to 161/9)
23:36 (11:36pm)1 Nov 2026reported 15 min ago
- Location
- M5 northbound between J22 and J21
- Direction
- Northbound
- Lanes closed
- Restriction · Width restriction
- Reason
- Road improvement or upgrading
- Schedule
- 06:00 (6am) Tue 22 Sept 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Sat 3 Nov 2029
Forecast - not confirmed
M5 northbound Jct 24 to 23 carriageway closure
23:36 (11:36pm)1 Nov 2026reported 15 min ago
- Location
- roundabout at M5 J24/A38
- Direction
- Northbound
- Lanes closed
- Carriageway closed
- Reason
- Construction work
- Schedule
- 20:30 (8:30pm) Sun 1 Nov 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Mon 2 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
M5 northbound lane 2/3 closure
23:36 (11:36pm)1 Nov 2026reported 15 min ago
- Location
- M5 northbound between J25 and J24
- Direction
- Northbound
- Lanes closed
- Lane closures
- Reason
- Construction work
- Schedule
- 20:00 (8pm) Sun 1 Nov 2026 → 06:00 (6am) Mon 2 Nov 2026
Forecast - not confirmed
This page shows closures or roadworks affecting tonight only. For everything on the M5 see all the latest M5 traffic news, the overhead signs and the speed limits in force now.
Updated 23:52 (11:52pm) Sun 1 Nov 2026
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What usually closes a motorway overnight
Most overnight closures are planned, and most are one of a handful of things:
- Resurfacing — new road surface, almost always done at night.
- Overnight closure — a section shut completely, with a signed diversion.
- Lane closures — one or more lanes shut, traffic still moving.
- Contraflow — traffic running on the opposite carriageway.
- Road marking and road maintenance — shorter works, often a single night.
- Abnormal load — an oversized load moved at night under escort, precisely because the road is quiet.
Those are the categories National Highways publishes in its traffic data, and the words are theirs, not ours.
If nothing is showing
An empty page is good news, not a broken one. It means there are no closures we are aware of affecting the M5 tonight. Because works are sometimes added late, cancelled without the record being updated, or never published at all, that is not a guarantee of a clear run — but it is the best picture available, and it is the same picture the official sources have. Everything currently reported on the M5, day and night together, is on our latest M5 traffic news page.
The overnight M5 and the holiday run
The M5 is the road the South West travels on, and a great deal of that travel is deliberately done at night. Drivers heading for Devon and Cornwall have set off at midnight to miss the queues for as long as there has been an M5, and hauliers serving Avonmouth and Exeter run the same hours.
Which makes the overnight closures worth checking rather than assuming. The stretch that carries most traffic, Junction 6 to Junction 5 near Worcester, takes 150,612 vehicles a day — and when a section of that is shut at 1am, the diversion is usually a long one.