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Best time to cross the Calais International Avenue border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Calais International Avenue (3rd Bridge), 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 3rd 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. Tuesday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (442 readings)
  2. Thursday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (438 readings)
  3. Thursday 05:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (435 readings)
  4. Sunday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (434 readings)
  5. Wednesday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (433 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Sunday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 5 min (417 readings)
  2. Saturday 13:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 5 min (420 readings)
  3. Thursday 06:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (381 readings)
  4. Sunday 02:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (383 readings)
  5. Thursday 04:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (391 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 413 readings); Sunday 00:00 the highest (0 min, 413 readings).

Weekday by hour

Calais International Avenue (3rd Bridge): 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 International Avenue (3rd Bridge): 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.