Hume Highway

Hume Highway

Hume Freeway/Hume Motorway

New South Wales
–Victoria
Hume Highway; Hume Freeway/Hume Motorway; New South Wales–Victoria
	M31 Hume Motorway Southbound viewing from the Camden Valley Way overpass
General information
Type	Highway
Length	840 km (522 mi)
Gazetted	July 1925 (VIC, as North Eastern Highway) ; August 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 2)
Route number(s)	(2013–present); (Ashfield–Warwick Farm); (2013–present); (Warwick Farm–Prestons); (2013–present); (Prestons, NSW–Campbellfield, VIC);
Former; route number	see Former route allocations
Major junctions
Northeast end	Great Western Highway; Ashfield, Sydney
	Cumberland Highway; South-West Motorway; Westlink M7; Old Hume Highway; Illawarra Highway; Federal Highway; Barton Highway; Snowy Mountains Highway; Sturt Highway; Olympic Highway; Riverina Highway; Murray Valley Highway; Great Alpine Road; Midland Highway; Goulburn Valley Freeway; Goulburn Valley Highway; Northern Highway; Sydney Road;
Southwest end	Metropolitan Ring Road; Western Ring Road Campbellfield, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major settlements	Berrima, Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, Albury–Wodonga, Wangaratta, Benalla, Seymour, Craigieburn
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in New South Wales; Highways in Victoria;

Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for 840 kilometres (520 mi) between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 August 2013.

From north to south, the road is called Hume Highway in metropolitan Sydney, Hume Motorway between the Cutler Interchange and Berrima, Hume Highway elsewhere in New South Wales and Hume Freeway in Victoria. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury–Wodonga and Canberra. It is therefore considered to be Australia's longest highway in terms of its dual-carriageway standard retaining the M or motorway alphanumeric.

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