55 crossings · 78 days

Border wait time trends

Average, 75th percentile, and 90th percentile for each Canada–US crossing, from the CBSA archive. The P90 shows what the top 10% of waits look like — that is the risk you carry.

The last column is the American side and it measures something different: the current CBP commercial wait, taken today and stated in each port's own time. CBSA publishes a history, which is what the percentiles are built from. CBP publishes only the reading now, so the two are not averaged and should not be read as a single figure.

History ends 2026-10-27 07:01 UTC1214 observationsCBSA archive — historical, not live

Border wait times vary by time of day, day of week, and which port you're using. This page aggregates every CBSA record we've collected into typical patterns so you can plan your crossing rather than guessing.

Ambassador Bridge is the highest-volume Canada-US land crossing and also carries the most delay risk. Blue Water Bridge and Pacific Highway tend to be lighter but surge during peak hours or when trucker parking fills up near the terminals. Peace and Queenston bridges carry less commercial traffic and often run under five minutes outside of rush windows.

The P75 and P90 columns tell you what the top quartile and decile look like respectively. If you see "P90: 45 min" for Ambassador Bridge, that means in ten out of every hundred recordings through that port, the wait was 45 minutes or more. That's the number you plan around, not the average.

We pull from CBSA's public JSON feed once per deploy cycle. Each deployment adds one row per active crossing to the history, currently spanning from mid-August 2026 with roughly daily observation points across nine ports. More data means sharper patterns — this page gets more useful as it ages.

All crossings

Crossing	Average	P75	P90	US now CBP	Observations	Days covered
Us Laredo World Trade Bridge	40 min	52.5 min	60.0 min	—	18 records	18 days
Us Calexico East	35 min	60.0 min	75.0 min	—	11 records	11 days
Us Santa Teresa Santa Teresa Port Of Entry	34 min	45.0 min	50.0 min	—	15 records	15 days
Us El Paso Ysleta	32 min	36.2 min	42.5 min	—	16 records	16 days
Us Sweetgrass	23 min	35.0 min	40.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Otay Mesa Commercial	15 min	22.5 min	28.0 min	—	19 records	19 days
Us Eagle Pass Bridge Ii	13 min	15.0 min	15.0 min	—	16 records	16 days
Us Hidalgo Pharr Pharr	11 min	10.0 min	27.5 min	—	16 records	16 days
Pacific Highway	10 min	10.0 min	20.0 min	0 min	55 records	55 days
Queenston–Lewiston	9 min	14.0 min	27.0 min	0 min	55 records	55 days
Us Detroit Ambassador Bridge	9 min	10.0 min	31.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Port Huron Bluewater Bridge	8 min	13.0 min	23.2 min	—	23 records	23 days
Fort Erie–Buffalo	7 min	13.0 min	13.0 min	4 min	55 records	55 days
Us Laredo Colombia Solidarity	6 min	10.0 min	17.0 min	—	17 records	17 days
Ambassador Bridge	5 min	5.0 min	18.0 min	35 min	55 records	55 days
Us Buffalo Niagara Falls Peace Bridge	5 min	6.5 min	11.2 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Lynden	4 min	5.0 min	5.0 min	—	22 records	22 days
Us Pembina	4 min	4.0 min	14.0 min	—	21 records	21 days
Blue Water Bridge	3 min	0.0 min	10.0 min	0 min	55 records	55 days
Us Brownsville Veterans International	3 min	5.0 min	5.0 min	—	15 records	15 days
Us Buffalo Niagara Falls Lewiston Bridge	3 min	3.5 min	9.4 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us San Luis San Luis Ii	3 min	5.0 min	5.0 min	—	16 records	16 days
Lacolle–Champlain	2 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	not reported	55 records	55 days
Us Alexandria Bay Thousand Islands Bridge	2 min	0.0 min	10.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Blaine Pacific Highway	2 min	5.0 min	5.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Brownsville Los Indios	2 min	5.0 min	5.0 min	—	13 records	13 days
Us Detroit Gordie Howe International Bridge	2 min	5.0 min	5.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Houlton	2 min	3.0 min	4.6 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Sumas	2 min	5.0 min	5.0 min	—	22 records	22 days
Coutts–Sweetgrass	1 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	5 min	55 records	55 days
Emerson–Pembina	1 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	not reported	55 records	55 days
Us Champlain	1 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	22 records	22 days
Us Highgate Springs	1 min	0.0 min	4.5 min	—	12 records	12 days
Us Madawaska	1 min	0.0 min	2.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Lansdowne–Alexandria	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	10 min	55 records	55 days
Us Calais International Avenue	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Del Rio	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	16 records	16 days
Us Derby Line Derby Line I 91	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us International Falls	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Jackman	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	22 records	22 days
Us Massena	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	18 records	18 days
Us Norton	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Ogdensburg	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	23 records	23 days
Us Sault Ste Marie International Bridge Ssm	0 min	0.0 min	0.0 min	—	23 records	23 days

Citing this figure

Northern Mile border trends: 55 crossings, 78 days, 1214 observations. CBSA and US Customs and Border Protection feeds. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/border-trends/

How it is calculated