The roadworks information on M5 Traffic is updated and refreshed at least every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

The heart sinks when you see that long line of orange cones, cars bunching and slowing down as they try to filter into fewer lanes. The purpose of our M5 roadworks page is to provide the latest official roadworks news and updates about where current roadworks are taking place, as well as planned roadworks.

You can filter M5 roadworks to plan your journey and try to avoid the roadworks where you can. You can filter roadworks by direction and between the junctions your drive along the M5 will take you, all to help you find the roadworks that are relevant to your route.

Roadworks fall into a number of categories. There are full, partial or lane closures on the main carriageway, hard shoulder maintenance and repairs, central barrier repairs, and repairs and maintenance to slip roads. The search term "clo" will find most of them, and you can filter for roadworks active now or planned roadworks.

One of the things that we dread as motorists is those orange cones and the overhead red cross telling you there is only one lane to filter into, and the drivers that decide to push into the only lane left open at the last possible minute often bring the whole motorway to a grinding halt. This approach to lanes closed ahead often leads to longer delays at roadworks that might not have arisen with a less aggressive approach to trying to be at the front, right?

So, planning ahead can help you avoid those types of frustrating events, by taking a different route or travelling earlier or later to avoid the traffic jams. We feature the latest up-to-date M5 traffic information available to help you do that.

M5 roadworks are often easier to plan around than unpredictable accidents or incidents. Roadworks are often carried out at night where possible, to avoid substantial impacts on traffic during the busy working day.

However, overnight delivery drivers, people who work nights and the emergency services can often be affected by overnight closures, so knowing which slip roads, lanes or carriageways are closed, or where the number of available lanes is seriously reduced, all helps to plan a stress-free journey.

That late-night return from a visit to a relative, or the later return than planned after an extra long, busy day, only to find the slip road you needed to exit at has been closed for the night for maintenance and repairs, are particularly frustrating and unpleasant surprises.

Having to unexpectedly drive on to the next exit and figure out a route back to your home or original planned destination can be very frustrating and annoying, especially if you are tired or needed to be somewhere by a particular time.

Hopefully our page, which features both current and planned roadworks on the M5, will enable you to check the roadworks information for your trip and avoid those types of frustrations.

M5traffic.co.uk wishes you a safe and hassle-free M5 drive.

Before you travel

Roadworks on the M5 are most disruptive overnight and at weekends, when full carriageway closures are more common. Check the latest M5 traffic news for anything happening right now, and the M5 junction map to plan your exit.