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Best time to cross the Derby Line-Stanstead border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Derby Line-Stanstead, 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 Stanstead (55). 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. Thursday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (537 readings)
  2. Monday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (534 readings)
  3. Wednesday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (534 readings)
  4. Saturday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (532 readings)
  5. Sunday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (530 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Sunday 18:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (499 readings)
  2. Friday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (500 readings)
  3. Monday 14:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (503 readings)
  4. Saturday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (506 readings)
  5. Friday 14:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 10 min (506 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 517 readings); Sunday 00:00 the highest (0 min, 517 readings).

Weekday by hour

Derby Line-Stanstead: 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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Derby Line-Stanstead: 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.