The illuminated traffic wand has a hilt, a wand, an illumination device, and a cap. The hilt is tubular and has a front end, a rear end, an illumination cavity at the rear end and a tapered wand seat at the front end. The wand is mounted securely in the tapered wand seat, is a rod of translucent material that transmits and radiates light and has a mounting pin and a tapered proximal end that corresponds to the tapered wand seat and has a pinhole that pinhole aligns with the mounting hole in the hilt. The mounting pin is mounted in the mounting hole and the pinhole to securely hold the wand in the hilt. The cap is connected to the rear end of the hilt, holds the illumination device in the illumination cavity and activates the illumination device to cause the wand to shine.