Hume Highway

Hume Highway

Hume Freeway/Hume Motorway

New South Wales
–Victoria
Hume Highway; Hume Freeway/Hume Motorway; New South Wales–Victoria
	M31 Hume Highway by-passing the Albury CBD, facing south (c. 2015)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	840 km (522 mi)
Gazetted	September 1914 (VIC, as Main Road); July 1925 (VIC, as State 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 Thomastown, 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;

The Hume Highway, including the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and the 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 the Hume Highway in metropolitan Sydney, the Hume Motorway between the Cutler Interchange and Berrima, the Hume Highway elsewhere in New South Wales and the 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.