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Best time to cross the Calais-St. Stephen border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Calais-St. Stephen (Ferry Point), by weekday and hour, from ten years of CBSA readings (pre-2020).

Pre-2020 pattern. Based on the CBSA’s 2010–2020 hourly readings for Canada-bound passenger vehicles at St. Stephen (Ferry Point Bridge). Use it to compare days and hours, not to expect a specific wait today. Check the live wait before you leave.

Lowest-wait windows

Ranked by the 90th percentile (one reading in ten was this long or longer), then the median. Hours are local time at the crossing.

  1. Sunday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (583 readings)
  2. Friday 00:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (563 readings)
  3. Saturday 00:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (561 readings)
  4. Thursday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (560 readings)
  5. Sunday 04:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (558 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Saturday 16:00: median 5 min, 90th percentile 20 min (528 readings)
  2. Saturday 14:00: median 5 min, 90th percentile 20 min (529 readings)
  3. Saturday 15:00: median 5 min, 90th percentile 20 min (533 readings)
  4. Sunday 14:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (512 readings)
  5. Sunday 15:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (522 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 546 readings); Saturday 14:00 the highest (5 min, 529 readings).

Weekday by hour

Calais-St. Stephen (Ferry Point): 90th-percentile passenger-vehicle wait into Canada by weekday and hour (minutes), 2010–2020. Hours are local time at the crossing. Cells need at least 5 readings.
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Calais-St. Stephen (Ferry Point): median passenger-vehicle wait into Canada by weekday and hour (minutes), 2010–2020. Hours are local time at the crossing. Cells need at least 5 readings.
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Darker cells are longer waits; a dot means too few readings. See the history page for the weekday summary and the period covered.

Holidays and events

This series is not broken out by holiday, so we do not state holiday waits. Long weekends and summer Fridays are the periods when the busiest windows above typically last longer; compare against the live figure on the day.