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Best time to cross the International Falls-Fort Frances border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at International Falls-Fort Frances, 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 Fort Frances 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. Friday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (557 readings)
  2. Monday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (550 readings)
  3. Monday 09:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (547 readings)
  4. Thursday 08:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (544 readings)
  5. Sunday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (540 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Saturday 11:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 25 min (518 readings)
  2. Saturday 13:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (491 readings)
  3. Saturday 12:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (499 readings)
  4. Friday 16:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (516 readings)
  5. Saturday 10:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 20 min (523 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 512 readings); Sunday 00:00 the highest (0 min, 512 readings).

Weekday by hour

International Falls-Fort Frances: 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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International Falls-Fort Frances: 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.