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Best time to cross the Champlain-Lacolle border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Champlain-Lacolle, 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-Bernard-de-Lacolle: Highway 15. 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. Monday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (543 readings)
  2. Tuesday 11:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (535 readings)
  3. Monday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (532 readings)
  4. Wednesday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (531 readings)
  5. Sunday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (529 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Sunday 18:00: median 10 min, 90th percentile 45 min (508 readings)
  2. Sunday 17:00: median 10 min, 90th percentile 45 min (525 readings)
  3. Sunday 19:00: median 5 min, 90th percentile 45 min (536 readings)
  4. Monday 18:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 45 min (507 readings)
  5. Sunday 21:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 45 min (510 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 448 readings); Sunday 17:00 the highest (10 min, 525 readings).

Weekday by hour

Champlain-Lacolle: 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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Fri051000000001020253030303030302010101010
Sat5101010000005102020202020253040353025105
Champlain-Lacolle: 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.