A6 autoroute


The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Motorway of the Sun,, is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a and A6b respectively, that join south of Paris. The motorway is favoured by holidaymakers as it is the main link to the South of France and the French Riviera. At 455km long it is France's third longest autoroute after the A10 autoroute and the A4 autoroute.
The A6 motorway used to be prone to severe traffic jams around Fourvière Tunnel near Lyon prior to the opening in 1992 of A46 autoroute and in 2011 of the A432 autoroute which is also called the "Contournement de Lyon" and known as the "Lyon Rocade Est".
A 200-kilometre stretch of the A6 motorway around Mâcon, Chalon-sur-Saône and Montceau-les-Mines, France, is known for the A6 disappearances, a number of mysterious disappearances or other crimes involving women and girls, occurring in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

Exit list

Exits are numbered from north to south.
#DestinationsNotes
Boulevard Périphérique Intérieur - Porte d'Arcueilnorthbound exit and southbound entrance
RN20 - Porte d'Orléansnorthbound exit and southbound entrance
Boulevard Périphérique Extérieurnorthbound exit and southbound entrance
slow vehicles; all directions southbound exit and northbound entrance
A6b north - Metz; Nancy; Lille; Villejuif; Arcueil; Périphérique east; Porte d'Italienorthbound exit and southbound entrance
A106 south - Aéroport Orlysouthbound exit and northbound entrance
3Rungissouthbound exit and northbound entrance
A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeausouthbound exit and northbound entrance
A6b north - Versailles; Antony; Lille; Metz; Nancy; Rungis; Aéroport Orly; Créteilnorthbound exit and southbound entrance; A6a becomes A6 southbound and begins northbound
to A10 - Palaiseau; Massy; Wissous northbound exit and southbound entrance
5Chilly-Mazarin; Morangis; Longjumeau-
6Savigny-sur-Orge; Épinay-sur-Orge; Morsang-sur-Orge; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois-
7Viry-Châtillon; Fleury-Mérogis southbound exit and northbound entrance
7.1Grigny; Ris-Orangis; Viry-Châtillon -
N104 west to A13; to A10 - Rouen; Bordeaux; Nantes; Versailles; Évry-Centre; Courcouronnes; Bondoufle -
N104 east to A5; to A1 - Troyes; Corbeil-Essonnes; Sénart; Melun; Marne-la-Vallée; Lisses-Centre; Évry; Courcouronnes -
9Villabé; Évry-Lisses Z.I.; Mennecy-
10Corbeil-Essonnes-Centre; Mennecy northbound exit and southbound entrance
11Le Coudray-Montceaux; Mennecy; Auvernauxsouthbound exit and northbound entrance
12Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry southbound exit and northbound entrance
to N7 - Fontainebleau southbound exit and northbound entrance
13Étampes; Melun; Milly-la-Forêt-
14Malesherbes -
15Fontainebleau northbound exit and southbound entrance
16Montereau-Fault-Yonne; Nemours-
A77 south - Nevers; Montargissouthbound exit and northbound entrance
17E60 west - Montargis; Orléans; Courtenay; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne -
A19 to A5 - Paris; Sens; Troyes-
18Joigny; Toucy; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne; Charny; Châteaurenard-
19Auxerre; Joigny; Migennes -
20Tonnerre; Auxerre -
21Nitry; Montbard; Vézelay; Tonnerre-
22Avallon; Saulieu -
23Bierre-lès-Semur; Semur-en-Auxois; Saulieu; Montbard-
A38 - Dijon; Autun; Saulieu; Pouilly-en-Auxois-
24Beaune-Centre; Savigny-lès-Beaune; Beaune-Saint-Nicolas -
A31 to A36; to A5 - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Besançon; Dijon -
24.1Beaune-Centre; Chagny; Beaune-Hospices -
25Chalon-Nord; Chalon-sur-Saône; Autun; Châtenoy-le-Royal; Chagny-
26Chalon-Sud; Chalon-sur-Saône; Le Creusot; Montceau-les-Mines; Lons-le-Saunier -
27Tournus -
28Mâcon-Nord; Mâcon; Bourg-en-Bresse; Pont-de-Vaux -
A40 - Milan; Geneva; Bourg-en-Bressesouthbound exit and northbound entrance
29Mâcon-Sud; Mâcon; Moulins; Charnay-lès-Mâcon; Thoissey; Cluny; Charolles -
30Belleville; Thoissey; Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne-
31Villefranche-sur-Saône; Jassans-Riottier-
32Anse; Quincieuxsouthbound exit and northbound entrance
33Limonest; Dardilly; Porte de Lyonbeginning of a toll-free, publicly managed section
34Techlid; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or-
35Écully; Dardilly; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or; La Duchère-
36Tassin-La-Demi-Lune; RN7 towards A89-
37Tassin-La-Demi-Lunenorthbound exit, southbound and northbound entrances
39aVieux Lyon-
39bLyon-Centre, Perrachetowards south only, no northbound exit
39cLyon-Part-Dieu-

A6b