Full list of road closures set to be in place as Manchester Day 2025 takes over the city
Street performers at Manchester Day / Credit: Manchester City Council
Manchester Day is back for 2025 this weekend, and the full list of road closures set to be in place has been confirmed.
Now that schools are officially out across Greater Manchester, and the summer holidays are well and truly here, the hugely-popular Manchester Day is making a return once again this Saturday 26 July, and as always, it’s set to be ‘the day summer officially starts’ in the city centre – with a massive celebration of ‘all things Mancunian’ on the cards.
The theme of this year’s annual event is music, and it’s inspired by Manchester’s spectacular summer of sound, spearheaded by Oasis Live ’25 that recently concluded at Heaton Park.
The day will be packed full of free events and activities to get involved with.
As always, activities will be taking place right across the city centre – from St Ann’s Square to Cathedral Gardens, and everywhere in between.
Organisers say there will be plenty of chances throughout the day for visitors, both young and old, to get stuck in, try their hand at making music and maybe even uncover a hidden musical talent they didn’t know they had.
But of course, in order for the all the fun to go ahead as safely as possible, and as tends to be the case for events like these, Manchester City Council says it will need to make some temporary road closures to facilitate it.
The full list of road closures has now been confirmed by the Council, and there’s some major city centre thoroughfares set to be out of action.
Here’s everything you need to know.
Manchester Day 2025 – Road Closures
Saturday 26 July
From 6am to 10pm, Manchester City Council has confirmed that the following roads will be closed:
- Deansgate (Victoria Street to John Dalton Street)
- St Ann Street (Deansgate to Cross Street)
- Cross Street (Corporation Street to New Market Street)
- St Mary’s Gate (Exchange Street to Deansgate)
- Market Street (Cross Street to Exchange Street)
- Exchange Street (St Mary’s Gate to St Ann’s Square)
- Cateaton Street (Deansgate to Exchange Square)
- Victoria Street (Deansgate to Cathedral Approach)
- Fennel Street (Corporation Street to Cathedral Street)
- Cathedral Street (Fennel Street to Exchange Square)
From 10am to 2pm:
- Deansgate (John Dalton Street to St John Street)
- Peter Street (St James Street to Deansgate)
- Mount Street (Windmill Street to Albert Square)
- Central Street (Southmill Street to Mount Street)
All accessible bays, bus lanes, and taxi ranks within the closed areas will also be suspended during from 9pm on Friday 25 July to 9pm on Saturday 26 July.
The parking suspensions set to be in place are:
- Deansgate (Victoria Street to St John Street)
- Peter Street (St James Street to Deansgate)
- Mount Street (Windmill Street to Albert Square)
- Central Street (Southmill Street to Mount Street)
- Southmill Street (Windmill Street to Jackson’s Row)
- Museum Street (Windmill Street to Peter Street)
- George Street (Princess Street to Dickinson Street)
- Victoria Street (Deansgate to Cathedral Approach)
- St Ann Street (Deansgate to Cross Street)
- Cross Street (Corporation Street to New Market Street)
- Cateaton Street (Deansgate to Exchange Square)
- Market Street (Cross Street to St Mary’s Gate)
- St Mary’s Gate (Market Street to Deansgate)
- John Dalton Street (Cross Street to Deansgate)
- King Street (Cross Street to Spring Gardens)
- St James’s Square (King Street to South King Street)
- St Mary’s Street (Southgate to Deansgate)
- Cathedral Street (Fennel Street to Exchange Square)
- Fennel Street (Corporation Street to Cathedral Street)
- Southgate (King Street West to St Mary’s Street)
On the day, full traffic diversion signage will be in place across all areas affected by road closures, and the Council says it will do its best to ‘minimise’ their duration.
Manchester Day 2025 is taking over the city centre on Saturday 26 July, and will be kicking off at midday right through to 5pm.
Read more:
- New art trail celebrating city’s music scene takes over Manchester for summer
- Popular daytime rave where you can be in bed by 9pm is coming back to Manchester
- Council organises thousands of FREE activities for Greater Manchester kids this summer
Check out everything you need to know ahead of the event here.
Featured Image – Manchester City Council