We know the date of the worst day of summer on the roads, there is still time to avoid it

This day is announced as the most difficult on the roads ahead. the occasion of the summer holidays.

The months of July and August often rhyme with vacations, sun and beaches. But also with traffic jams. For eight à nine weeks, tens of millions of French people meet on the roads to reach their summer destinations, which are numerous in France, as well as abroad. the sea that'à the mountains or inland. Saturdays, which very often coincide with the start of rentals for vacationers, are always the busiest days on the roads. It's not uncommon in the summer' to note more than 1000 kilometers of traffic jams across the entire territory that day.

Summer 2024 n'&eac;will not escape the rule. And if the first big waves of departures took place during the first two weekends of July, following the start of the school holidays, it's a little more It was late when the worst day of the summer was announced. The one where More than ever, you will have to be patient in the car when journey times will be extended by three, four or even five hours. Traffic Information Specialist, Bison Futé has already published the calendar of traffic difficulties from weeks to come. And this year the busiest day should not take place in August but in July.

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It is in fact Saturday July 27 that the traffic forecasts in France are the most pessimistic. With a completely black card in the direction of departures – the color meaning "extremely difficult traffic" – and red in the direction of returns à with the exception of Ile-de-France also in black. If you are planning to go on vacation to On the occasion of this first big weekend of cross-hunting, which will also be the start of the Paris Olympic Games, prepare -you à A particularly trying day, especially if the heat is present. There will be no exception, and all the main axes of the country, ' start with the A6, the A7, the A9 and the A10, risk being saturated & ;agrave; one time or another of the day.

It may not be too late to adapt your program, for example by moving forward your big day by one day. leaves, leaves &agrav; plan a stopover at your destination halfway. This allows you to take advantage of a much less congested road on Friday and to leave on Saturday morning from a place not yet taken over by motorists ahead of you. condition of spending the night outside a large city.