A6 autoroute

The A6, also called the Autoroute du Soleil (Autoroute of the Sun) along with the A7 in French, is an autoroute (motorway) in France. It links Paris with Lyon. It is used as part of the main road between Paris and Southern France. It joins onto the A7 towards Marseille. The autoroute is the third longest in France, after the A10 and the A4. It is about 446 kilometres (277 mi) long.

A6 autoroute
Route information
Part of
Maintained by DIR Centre-Est between Lyon and Limonest; APRR between Limonest and Cély; DIR île-De-France between Cély and Paris
Length	445.6 km (276.9 mi)
Existed	1960–present
Major junctions
West end	Paris (Porte d' Italie & Porte de Gentilly)
Highway system
Roads in France Autoroutes Routes nationales

Exits and junctions

#	Destinations	Notes
	Boulevard Périphérique Intérieur - Porte d'Arcueil	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	RN20 - Porte d'Orléans	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	Boulevard Périphérique Extérieur	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	slow vehicles; all directions (A6b south)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A6b north - Metz; Nancy; Lille; Villejuif; Arcueil; Périphérique east; Porte d'Italie	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A106 south - Aéroport Orly	southbound exit and northbound entrance
3	Rungis	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A6b north - Versailles; Antony; Lille; Metz; Nancy; Rungis; Aéroport Orly; Créteil	northbound exit and southbound entrance; A6a becomes A6 southbound and begins northbound
	to A10 - Palaiseau; Massy; Wissous (A126)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
5	Chilly-Mazarin; Morangis; Longjumeau
6	Savigny-sur-Orge; Épinay-sur-Orge; Morsang-sur-Orge; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
7	Viry-Châtillon; Fleury-Mérogis (N445)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
7.1	Grigny; Ris-Orangis; Viry-Châtillon (N440; N441)
	N104 west to A13; to A10 - Rouen; Bordeaux; Nantes; Versailles; Évry-Centre; Courcouronnes; Bondoufle (N440; N441; N449)
	N104 east to A5; to A1 - Troyes; Corbeil-Essonnes; Sénart; Melun; Marne-la-Vallée; Lisses-Centre; Évry; Courcouronnes (N446)
9	Villabé; Évry-Lisses Z.I.; Mennecy
10	Corbeil-Essonnes-Centre; Mennecy (N191)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
11	Le Coudray-Montceaux; Mennecy; Auvernaux	southbound exit and northbound entrance
12	Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry (N337)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	to N7 - Fontainebleau (N37)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
13	Étampes; Melun; Milly-la-Forêt
14	Malesherbes (N152)
15	Fontainebleau (N7 north)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
16	Montereau-Fault-Yonne; Nemours
	A77 south - Nevers; Montargis	southbound exit and northbound entrance
17	E60 west - Montargis; Orléans; Courtenay; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (N60)
	A19 to A5 - Paris; Sens; Troyes
18	Joigny; Toucy; Villeneuve-sur-Yonne; Charny; Châteaurenard
19	Auxerre; Joigny; Migennes (N6)
20	Tonnerre; Auxerre (N65)
21	Nitry; Montbard; Vézelay; Tonnerre
22	Avallon; Saulieu (N146)
23	Bierre-lès-Semur; Semur-en-Auxois; Saulieu; Montbard
	A38 - Dijon; Autun; Saulieu; Pouilly-en-Auxois
24	Beaune-Centre; Savigny-lès-Beaune; Beaune-Saint-Nicolas (N74)
	A31 to A36; to A5 - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Besançon; Dijon (E60 east)
24.1	Beaune-Centre; Chagny; Beaune-Hospices (N470)
25	Chalon-Nord; Chalon-sur-Saône; Autun; Châtenoy-le-Royal; Chagny
26	Chalon-Sud; Chalon-sur-Saône; Le Creusot; Montceau-les-Mines; Lons-le-Saunier (N80)
27	Tournus (N6)
28	Mâcon-Nord; Mâcon; Bourg-en-Bresse; Pont-de-Vaux (N72)
	A40 - Milan; Geneva; Bourg-en-Bresse	southbound exit and northbound entrance
29	Mâcon-Sud; Mâcon; Moulins; Charnay-lès-Mâcon; Thoissey; Cluny; Charolles (N79)
30	Belleville; Thoissey; Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne
31	Villefranche-sur-Saône; Jassans-Riottier
32	Anse; Quincieux	southbound exit and northbound entrance (no toll-free access)
33	Limonest; Dardilly; Porte de Lyon	beginning of a toll-free, publicly managed section (south)
34	Techlid; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or
35	Écully; Dardilly; Champagne-Au-Mont-D'or; La Duchère
36	Tassin-La-Demi-Lune; RN7 towards A89
37	Tassin-La-Demi-Lune	northbound exit, southbound and northbound entrances
39a	Vieux Lyon
39b	Lyon-Centre, Perrache	towards south only, no northbound exit
39c	Lyon-Part-Dieu

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A6b

#	Destinations	Notes
	Périphérique outer - Metz; Nancy; Lille	northbound exit and southbound entrance
1	Porte d'Italie	northbound exit and southbound entrance
2	D61 - Villejuif; Arcueil; Le Kremlin-Bicêtre	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A6a north - Rouen; Paris-Centre; Périphérique inner; Porte d'Orléans	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A106 south - Aéroport Orly	southbound exit and northbound entrance
3	Rungis	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	A86 west; N186 west - Antony; l'Haÿ-les-Roses; Versailles; Fresnes; Chevilly-Larue	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	A86 east; N186 east - Lille; Metz; Nancy; Créteil; Aéroport Orly; other sectors of Rungis	no southbound exit
	A10 south - Palaiseau; Étampes; Bordeaux; Nantes; Massy; Longjumeau	southbound exit and northbound entrance